Alessandra

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alessandra is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Italian; feminine form of Alessandro, of Alexandra.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 894◐
  • ITItaly1 in 1K
  • PEPeru1 in 4.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈261K ●

across 9 countries

#688 ●

of 16M given names

Sources
279 ●

419K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 894 ◐

Brazil

Meaning & origin●

Italian; feminine form of Alessandro, of Alexandra

Sources 1

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Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Alessandra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#137236,803295K rec.1 in 894244KAlessandra205
IT Italy#18250,59546K rec.—372Alessandra164
PE Peru#61345,58029K rec.——Alessandra66
US United States—20,35916K rec.1 in 16K20KAlessandra279
AR Argentina—10,4847K rec.—125Alessandra54
MX Mexico—9,8794.7K rec.——Alessandra118
VE Venezuela—7,3605.5K rec.——Alessandra46
CL Chile#9554,597555 rec.—58Alessandra62
SV El Salvador#4004,4261.2K rec.——Alessandra35
ES Spain—2,4713K rec.1 in 20K2.5KAlessandra80
GT Guatemala#3012,0952.1K rec.——Alessandra21
PT Portugal#5351,138378 rec.—listedAlessandra65

Roughly 237K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 894). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese3.7M86%
  • English287K7%
  • Spanish122K3%
  • Italian92K2%
  • German45K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese3,733,26886%
English287,0947%
Spanish122,0113%
Italian91,5272%
German45,3581%

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◐

Alessandra is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name355K records spelled Alessandra12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Italy, United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Alessändrä

  • a separate given name7.3K records spelled Alessandra2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Alessandrà

  • Finnish given name3.2K records spelled Alessandra4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Italy, United States, Slovenia

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Áléssándrá

  • Lao given name1.6K records spelled Alessandra9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Peru, Italy, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written อเลสซานดร้า, อเลสซานดรา, อเลสแซนดรา, Alëssåndrå, Älëssändrä

49 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●

Alessandra 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 English, A female given name from Italian, equivalent to English Alexandra.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, a female given name, masculine equivalent Alessandro

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Se Alexandra.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Variante italienne d’Alexandra, du grec Alexandros, « qui protège les hommes ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, Italian feminine form of Alexander

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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●

05001K1.5K19601980200020201.1K · 2015

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Alessandra in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1943–2025
Yearrecords
19435
19466
19496
19506
19526
19537
19558
19565
19586
195913
196016
19618
19628
196314
196416
196517
196614
196723
196837
196924
197029
197138
197229
197344
197436
197533
197630
197722
197828
197946
198043
198141
198253
198352
198484
1985111
1986141
1987176
1988220
1989214
1990237
1991215
1992248
1993199
1994233
1995253
1996264
1997273
1998284
1999312
2000359
2001346
2002394
2003459
2004569
2005664
2006897
2007858
2008785
2009658
2010830
2011792
2012923
20131,065
20141,082
20151,141
20161,070
20171,036
20181,009
20191,003
2020843
2021789
2022822
2023788
2024724
2025697

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 76 years between 1943–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Princess Alexandra of Hanover, b. 1882Alessandra Panaro, b. 1939Alessandra Mussolini, b. 1962Alessandra Ferri, b. 1963Alessandra Rosaldo, b. 1971Alessandra Ambrosio, b. 1981Alessandra Mastronardi, b. 1986Alessandra Torresani, b. 1987Alessandra Perilli, b. 1988Alessandra Mele, b. 2002

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●

Attested in 83 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Alessandra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—244K#212
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022237K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—236K#132
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202020K#1,581
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.5K#1,503
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.2K#811
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1K#132
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2022755#2,540
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025697—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—443#2,290
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—424#3,104

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 731 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alessandra?
We estimate roughly 261 thousand people bear Alessandra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Alessandra have the most bearers?
We estimate about 237 thousand people bear Alessandra in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled alessandra.
Where is Alessandra most common?
Alessandra is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 894 people carrying it.
How common is Alessandra compared with other names?
In Brazil, Alessandra is the 137th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Alessandra a male or female name?
Alessandra 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 Alessandra mean?
Recorded meaning: Italian; feminine form of Alessandro, of Alexandra
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alessandra” — the 137th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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