Oleksandra

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 Aleksandra in PL Poland, SE Sweden, HR Croatia and 1 more.

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 15 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 recorded senses●

Oleksandra 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 Aleksandra.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In izh, a unisex given name, equivalent to English Alexander or Alexandra

  as a word·kaikki.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●

SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Oleksandra Kuzhelb. 1953UAUkrainian economist and politician
• Olexandra Tymoshenkob. 1972UAnot in their usual namegymnast
• Oleksandra Nikolayenkob. 1981UAUkrainian model
• Oleksandra Matviichukb. 1983UAUkrainian human rights activist
• Oleksandra Kohutb. 1987UAUkrainian wrestler
• Oleksandra Kuvshinovab. 1990UAUkrainian journalist
• Oleksandra Kononovab. 1991UAParalympic skier
• Oleksandra Oliynykovab. 2001UAUkrainian tennis player
• Oleksandra Khomenetsb. 2003UAUkrainian freestyle wrestler
• Oleksandra Zelenskab. 2004UAdaughter of Volodymyr Zelenskyj, the president of Ukraine

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 · 122 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Oleksandra?

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

In which country does Oleksandra have the most bearers?

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

Where is Oleksandra most common?

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

How common is Oleksandra compared with other names?

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

Is Oleksandra a male or female name?

Oleksandra 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.