How rare is the name Alexandre?

8,417 people in the United States have the first name Alexandre, about 1 in 35,884. It ranks #2,771 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ALEXANDRE

#2,771

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,417
About
1 in 35,884
This common or more
80.8%
Who bears it

Of the 8,417 people named Alexandre, 68% reported their origin as White, 14.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 9.3% as Black. 97.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Alexandre peaked in 2003, when 173 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19152025
Peak year
2003
Births that year
173
In 2025*
67 ▼61%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 5,389 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Alexandre by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #2,125. The largest share of babies named Alexandre, 42.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1910s#9,47512
1920s#13,8275
1940s#12,5745
1950s#10,93119
1960s#6,301105
1970s#4,624251
1980s#2,821670
1990s#2,1251,433
2000s#2,5351,477
2010s#3,560996
2020s#4,498416
Greatest Generation 1901–270.3%
Baby boom 1946–641.1%
Generation X 1965–806.8%
Millennials 1981–9630.1%
Generation Z 1997–1242.7%
2013 and later19.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Alexandre is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alexandre has been most common in Florida (4×), Massachusetts (3.5×), and California (2.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.22×).

3,136 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Also a last name

As a last name, Alexandre ranks #6,417 of 156,621, with 5,094 people. See Alexandre as a last name

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