girls:
103.3k births since 1902
#360 (94th percentile)
boys:
230 births since 1905
#4356 (5th percentile)
overall:
103.5k births since 1902
#665 (91st percentile)
The name Alexandria is the #665 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 103,507 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 91.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #360 (93.7% percentile) for all time with 103,277 births since 1902. For boys, it ranks #4,356 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 230 births since 1905.
Alexandria first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for girls and 1905 for boys). Birth data for Alexandria is available in 120 out of the 122 years between 1902 and 2023 (120 years for girls and 24 years for boys). 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 Alexandria has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alexandria reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 92.1% percentile (ranked #69) with 2,550 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 2,550 births per million (ranked 92.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alexandria ranks #376 for girls (60.4% percentile) with 432 births per million, which is 16.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alexandria reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #732) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 35 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alexandria".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Alexandria. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.5% confident that Alexandria is pronounced as a-lihg-ZAN-dree-uh, which has 5 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-lihg-ZAN-dree-uh, at 17.8% confidence, with 5 syllables.
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