Aleksandra

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Alejandra in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, CL Chile and 7 more, Alexandra in BR Brazil, FR France, HU Hungary and 5 more, Александра in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 1 more and Олександра in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aleksandra is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Lithuanian given name75K records spelled Aleksandra3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, Russia

  Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

  Also written Aļeksandra

• English given name73K records spelled Aleksandra89 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Alexandra, Alexandrae, A-Lexandra, Alex-Andra, Alexandra'

• Portuguese given name34K records spelled Aleksandra6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Russia

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

  Also written Aleksañdrå

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aleksandra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Aleksandra är en bl.a. slavisk form av → Alexandra.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Polish, Alexandra

  as a name·Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

• In German, weibl. Vom., polnische und nor­ wegische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Russian, de alexein, défendre et andros, homme.

  as a name·Russian Names

• Feminine of ALEKSANDR.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 68 years between 1913–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Salome Alexandrab. 140not in their usual nameQueen regnant of Hasmonean Judaea from c.76 to 67 BCE
• Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russiab. 1783UAnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Russia (1783-1801)
• Alexandra Feodorovnab. 1798RUnot in their usual nameempress consort of Russia from 1825 to 1855 (1798–1860)
• Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmarkb. 1870GRnot in their usual namedaughter of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia; wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
• Alexandra Kollontaib. 1872RUnot in their usual nameSoviet diplomat (1872-1952)
• Aleksandra Eksterb. 1882UAUkrainian and French painter and designer (1882–1949)
• Alexandra Tolstayab. 1884RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1884-1979)
• Aleksandra Pakhmutovab. 1929RUSoviet and Russian composer
• Alexandra Kosteniukb. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian and Swiss chess player
• Alexandra Elbakyanb. 1988KZnot in their usual nameKazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 696 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aleksandra?

We estimate roughly 1.2 million people bear Aleksandra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Aleksandra have the most bearers?

Aleksandra is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled александра.

Where is Aleksandra most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aleksandra is densest in Poland — about 1 in 98 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Aleksandra compared with other names?

In Russia, Aleksandra is the 40th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Aleksandra a male or female name?

Aleksandra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Aleksandra mean?

Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Alexandra