Alexander

girls:

4.5k births since 1909

#2531 (56th percentile)

boys:

721.5k births since 1880

#47 (99th percentile)

overall:

726k births since 1880

#79 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alexander".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
4,520
Peak Births
331
Peak Year
1988
First Recorded
1909
Peak Percentile
37.7%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#388
Current Rank
#942
Female statistics
Total Births
721,479
Peak Births
20,529
Peak Year
2009
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.7%
Current Percentile
97.7%
Peak Rank
#4
Current Rank
#22
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Alexander

Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Alexander. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 21.3% confident that Alexander is pronounced as a-lihg-ZAN-der, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-lihg-ZAN-der, at 20.2% confidence, with 4 syllables.

A-luhg-ZAN-der (4 syllables)
Verified
12.8% confidence
AE1 L AH0 G Z AE1 N D ER0
a-luhg-ZAN-der (4 syllables)
Verified
12.8% confidence
AE0 L AH0 G Z AE1 N D ER0
A-luhk-SAN-der (4 syllables)
2.1% confidence
AE1 L AH0 K S AE1 N D ER0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AE0 L IH0 G Z AE1 N D ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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