girls:
846 births since 1932
#4870 (15th percentile)
boys:
142.8k births since 1885
#236 (95th percentile)
overall:
143.6k births since 1885
#520 (93rd percentile)
The name Alejandro is the #520 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 143,599 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 93.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #236 (94.9% percentile) for all time with 142,753 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #4,870 (14.8% percentile) for all time with 846 births since 1932.
Alejandro first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1932 for girls). Birth data for Alejandro is available in 126 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (126 years for boys and 45 years for girls). 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 Alejandro has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alejandro reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 89.6% percentile (ranked #87) with 2,203 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 2,203 births per million (ranked 89.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alejandro ranks #198 for boys (78.4% percentile) with 997 births per million, which is 45.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alejandro reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #802) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alejandro".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Alejandro. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.6% confident that Alejandro is pronounced as ah-leh-HAHN-droh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEH-huhn-droh, at 14.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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