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)
The name Alexander is the #79 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 725,999 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #47 (99.0% percentile) for all time with 721,479 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,531 (55.7% percentile) for all time with 4,520 births since 1909.
Alexander has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1909 for girls).
The name Alexander has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alexander reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 99.7% percentile (ranked #4) with 8,604 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 9,939 births per million (ranked 97.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alexander ranks #22 for boys (97.7% percentile) with 4,301 births per million, which is 43.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alexander reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 37.7% percentile (ranked #504) with 172 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 172 births per million (ranked 37.7% percentile). Despite a low point in 2003, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Alexander ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alexander".
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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.
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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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