Alexander

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Alexander is ranked 27th among boys in 2024 (7,517 births). Its best rank was 4th, in 2009.

Rank in 2024: #27down 5 from 2023
Births in 2024: 7,5170.44% of boys
Peak year: 199320,529 births
Best rank: #4in 2009
Since 1880: 733,348people given the name

Babies named Alexander, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

728,817 boys have been named Alexander in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 20,529 births — 1.0% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 8 → 27).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 76 of them in the top 100 and 10 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,531 girls have also been given it, 0.62% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Alexander
1880s	2,081
1890s	1,954
1900s	2,230
1910s	11,352
1920s	12,539
1930s	7,095
1940s	9,477
1950s	12,181
1960s	14,178
1970s	24,940
1980s	82,013
1990s	183,943
2000s	178,842
2010s	142,142
2020s	43,850

In 1993, its biggest year

Alexander was the 21st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1993 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1993.

Names that rose and fell with Alexander

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.