girls:
53k births since 1900
#560 (90th percentile)
boys:
530 births since 1972
#4056 (12th percentile)
overall:
53.5k births since 1900
#1036 (87th percentile)
The name Alejandra is the #1,036 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,523 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 86.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #560 (90.2% percentile) for all time with 52,993 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,056 (11.5% percentile) for all time with 530 births since 1972.
Alejandra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Alejandra is available in 114 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (114 years for girls and 32 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alejandra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alejandra reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 83.3% percentile (ranked #145) with 1,078 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 1,122 births per million (ranked 82.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alejandra ranks #479 for girls (49.5% percentile) with 315 births per million, which is 28.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alejandra reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #738) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 18 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alejandra".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Alejandra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.2% confident that Alejandra is pronounced as ah-leh-HAHN-druh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEH-huhn-druh, at 15.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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