Alejandro

180,051 people in America carry this name — ranked #309 of 923.

Most Americans carrying it were born this century.

Say it ah lay YAHND roh

4 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

AA0 L EY0 Y AA1 N D R OW0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 180,051 2020 Census
  • Per 100,000 59.6 about 1 in 1,841 people

Where Alejandro comes from and what it means

Teutonic in origin, reading literally as “helper of men”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

How often Alejandro has been given

137,918 babies were given this name since 1885. The busiest year was 2001, with 4,575 of them.

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Most people carrying it were born in the 2000s. It has been given less often of late.

Counted from Social Security card applications, so it covers births registered in the United States and leaves out names given to fewer than five babies in a year.

Middle names for Alejandro

Three syllables already, so a short middle name keeps the whole from running long.

Better avoided

  • Alejandro Andrew — same opening
  • Alejandro Adam — same opening
  • Alejandro Aaron — same opening

Chosen by sound from the pronouncing dictionary, then ordered by how often the name is given. None of it is a rule — the ear decides.

Boys or girls: who is called Alejandro?

99.5% men
837 women

As recorded on census returns, not as anyone thinks the name ought to be used.

Who carries it today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 2.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 96.2%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.9%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

The states where Alejandro is most common

In California the name is given 2.7 times as often as it is across the country.

  • California ×2.7
  • Arizona ×2.6
  • Texas ×2.4
  • Nevada ×2.2
  • New Mexico ×2.2

Measured against the state's own share of births since 1960, so a small state can lead a big one. Counted from Social Security card applications.

Names built the same way as Alejandro

Ends on the same sound

Same rhythm — 4 syllables, stress on the third

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Teutonic origin