girls:
145 births since 1982
#5571 (3rd percentile)
boys:
5.1k births since 1915
#1680 (63rd percentile)
overall:
5.2k births since 1915
#3770 (51st percentile)
The name Alexandre is the #3,770 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,248 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 51.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,680 (63.4% percentile) for all time with 5,103 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,571 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 145 births since 1982.
Alexandre first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Alexandre is available in 70 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 17 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 Alexandre has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alexandre reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 20.4% percentile (ranked #657) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 82 births per million (ranked 20.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alexandre ranks #865 for boys (5.1% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 33.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alexandre reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #812) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alexandre".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Alexandre", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 34 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Alexander" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Alexander..
Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Alexandre. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.8% confident that Alexandre is pronounced as A-lihg-ZAN-der, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is a-lihg-ZAN-der, at 20.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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