Oleksandr
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oleksandr is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script.
- UAUkraine1 in 24◐
- BYBelarus1 in 24
- RURussia1 in 24
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.9M ●
- #8 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 571 ●
- 1 in 85 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
45M records
Official registry-verified
Georgia
Spellings & scripts●
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alexander in US United States, VE Venezuela, DE Germany and 7 more, Alejandro in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 5 more, Александр in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more and Alexandre in BR Brazil, FR France.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #1 | 43,055,501 | 14M rec. | — | #1 | Александр | 272 |
| UA Ukraine | #1 | 13,326,879 | 13M rec. | — | listed | Олександр | 183 |
| AR Argentina | #9 | 6,299,634 | 3.5M rec. | — | 2.3K | Alejandro | 204 |
| MX Mexico | #14 | 2,322,888 | 1.7M rec. | — | 4K | Alejandro | 299 |
| VE Venezuela | #14 | 1,482,765 | 1M rec. | — | — | Alexander | 154 |
| PE Peru | #16 | 1,208,147 | 864K rec. | — | 87K | Alejandro | 144 |
| CL Chile | #7 | 912,679 | 69K rec. | — | 266 | Alejandro | 194 |
| CO Colombia | #7 | 714,326 | 212K rec. | — | 58 | Alejandro | 224 |
| DE Germany | #19 | 650,343 | 562K rec. | — | 11 | Alexander | 343 |
| US United States | #107 | 554,289 | 5.5M rec. | 1 in 600 | 554K | Alexander | 571 |
| BR Brazil | #52 | 422,722 | 272K rec. | 1 in 501 | 444K | Alexandre | 275 |
| TR Türkiye | #240 | 409,322 | 16K rec. | — | — | Александр | 50 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian2.3M79%
- Polish493K17%
- Finnish17K1%
- Spanish15K1%
- Norwegian Bokmål12K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 2,321,128 | 79% |
| Polish | 492,842 | 17% |
| Finnish | 16,865 | 1% |
| Spanish | 15,407 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 12,408 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Oleksandr is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Aleksandr.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, Oleksandr (transliteration of Олександр)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1947 | 1 |
| 1949 | 2 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1952 | 10 |
| 1953 | 4 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 9 |
| 1957 | 4 |
| 1958 | 8 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 4 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 4 |
| 1967 | 4 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 2 |
| 1970 | 8 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 4 |
| 1975 | 3 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 11 |
| 1979 | 4 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 4 |
| 1985 | 3 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 2 |
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1995 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 |
AR datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) — 50 years between 1947–2004. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Oleksandr Murashkob. 1875UAUkrainian painter (1875–1919)
- Alexander Archipenkob. 1887USnot in their usual nameAmerican sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin (1887–1964)
- Les Kurbasb. 1887UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian and Soviet actor, theatre director, film director (1887—1937)
- Oleksandr Dovzhenkob. 1894UASoviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956)
- Oleksandr Turchynovb. 1964UAUkrainian politician, screenwriter, and Doctor of Economic Sciences
- Oleksandr Syrskyib. 1965UAUkrainian general (born 1965)
- Oleksandr Shovkovskiyb. 1975UAUkrainian footballer
- Aleksandr Zakharchenkob. 1976UAnot in their usual nameHead and Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic
- Oleksandr Usykb. 1987UAUkrainian boxer
- Oleksandr Zinchenkob. 1996UAUkrainian 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●
Attested in 49 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 · 367 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oleksandr?
- We estimate roughly 1.9 million people bear Oleksandr (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oleksandr have the most bearers?
- Oleksandr is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled александр.
- How common is Oleksandr compared with other names?
- In Russia, Oleksandr is the most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Oleksandr a male or female name?
- Oleksandr 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oleksandrThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
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, “Oleksandr” — the most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.