Alessandro

Spellings & scripts●

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 23 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◐

Alessandro is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name462K records spelled Alessandro18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Brazil, United States, Germany

  Languages: German, English, Dutch

  Also written Alessàndro, Alessandrò, 'Alessandro, ́alessandro, Álêssândro

• Italian given name332K records spelled Alessandro32 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Alexander, Alexandros, Alessandrò, Ålessandro, 'Alessandro

• French given name45K records spelled Alessandro6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Alessàndro, Àléssàndro, Àlèssàndrò, Alèssàndrò

• Polish given name17K records spelled Alessandro33 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Poland, Croatia, Russia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

  Also written Алессандро, Alesandro, Алесандро, Alessandrò, Ẳleṩṩandro

• English surname17K records spelled Alessandro70 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese

  Also written Dalessandro, D'Alessandro, D' Alessandro, D’Alessandro, D''Alessandro

• Arabic given name6.3K records spelled Alessandro8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Arab Emirates, Israel

  Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

  Also written אלסנדרו, Alexandro, Alessandrina, Āľėśšăňďřő

57 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●

Alessandro 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 Italian, a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, in den i97oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., italienische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Italian, Dal greco: «salvatore di uomini».

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, forma italiana de Alexander

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Swedish, Se Alexander.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 74 years between 1933–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sandro Botticellib. 1445ITnot in their usual nameItalian painter (1445–1510)
• Paulus IIIb. 1468ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 (1468–1549)
• Alessandro Farneseb. 1520ITItalian cardinal and diplomat (1520–1589)
• Gregory XVb. 1554ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623 (1554–1623)
• Alessandro Voltab. 1745ITItalian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
• Giosuè Carduccib. 1835ITnot in their usual nameItalian poet and literary critic (1835-1907)
• Sandro Pertinib. 1896ITnot in their usual nameItalian journalist, resistance leader and politician, President of Italy from 1978 to 1985
• Alessandro Pavolinib. 1903FRItalian politician and writer (1903-1945)
• Giancarlo Espositob. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
• Alessandro Del Pierob. 1974ITItalian association football player

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 · 799 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alessandro?

We estimate roughly 169 thousand people bear Alessandro (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.

In which country does Alessandro have the most bearers?

We estimate about 144 thousand people bear Alessandro in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled alessandro.

Where is Alessandro most common?

Alessandro is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Alessandro compared with other names?

In Brazil, Alessandro is the 238th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Alessandro a male or female name?

Alessandro is a male 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 Alessandro mean?

Recorded meaning: Italian; masculine form of Alexandra, see Sanders