boys:
1.6k births since 1971
#3090 (33rd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1971
#6172 (20th percentile)
The name Aleksandr is the #6,172 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,574 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 20.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,090 (32.6% percentile) for all time with 1,574 births since 1971.
Aleksandr first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for boys in 1971). Birth data for Aleksandr is available in 49 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Aleksandr reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #854) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 36 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aleksandr ranks #869 for boys (4.6% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 72.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aleksandr".
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Our model has identified 28 different pronunciations for the name Aleksandr. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 9.0% confident that Aleksandr is pronounced as uh-LEHK-suhndr-suhndr, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is a-lehk-SAN-der, at 7.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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