Alejandra
#604 for girls in 2025, 486 births · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #12,022
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 2,187 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 54,015since 1900
Alejandra over time
Rank among girls' names. Alejandra has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #604 | 486 | — | |
| 2024 | #578 | 524 | — | |
| 2023 | #548 | 554 | — | |
| 2022 | #568 | 529 | — | |
| 2021 | #617 | 480 | — | |
| 2020 | #545 | 551 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #517 | 600 | — | |
| 2018 | #512 | 608 | — | |
| 2017 | #506 | 617 | — | |
| 2016 | #446 | 721 | — | |
| 2015 | #451 | 703 | — | |
| 2014 | #446 | 717 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #419 | 725 | — | |
| 2012 | #395 | 785 | — | |
| 2011 | #344 | 929 | — | |
| 2010 | #279 | 1,188 | — | |
| 2009 | #273 | 1,199 | — | |
| 2008 | #261 | 1,329 | — | |
| 2007 | #254 | 1,376 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #233 | 1,487 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #220 | 1,583 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #206 | 1,630 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #197 | 1,668 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #191 | 1,693 | — | |
| 2001 | #192 | 1,718 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #174 | 1,861 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #179 | 1,754 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #156 | 2,020 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #162 | 1,906 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #160 | 1,955 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #159 | 2,002 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #145 | 2,187 | #2,219 | 36 |
| 1993 | #147 | 2,126 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #148 | 2,044 | #2,085 | 37 |
| 1991 | #182 | 1,641 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | #211 | 1,376 | #2,255 | 31 |
| 1989 | #291 | 895 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #355 | 701 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #423 | 528 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #417 | 526 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #454 | 477 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #453 | 458 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #403 | 535 | #2,208 | 23 |
| 1982 | #441 | 490 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #438 | 488 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #458 | 463 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #506 | 392 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #578 | 297 | — | |
| 1977 | #641 | 259 | — | |
| 1976 | #566 | 293 | — | |
| 1975 | #772 | 183 | — | |
| 1974 | #834 | 158 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #897 | 139 | — | |
| 1972 | #818 | 162 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #1,074 | 112 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,343 | 78 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,276 | 77 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,647 | 49 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,702 | 45 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,147 | 30 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,829 | 39 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,666 | 48 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,131 | 31 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,917 | 36 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,359 | 26 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,760 | 18 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,725 | 18 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,116 | 22 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,340 | 18 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,778 | 28 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,279 | 19 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,874 | 20 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,916 | 20 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,038 | 16 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,153 | 14 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,305 | 13 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,906 | 17 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,105 | 15 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,934 | 18 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,825 | 20 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,381 | 14 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,699 | 12 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,830 | 22 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,191 | 17 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,137 | 18 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,944 | 20 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,463 | 14 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,805 | 21 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,552 | 12 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,246 | 14 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,134 | 8 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 | — | |
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
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| 1900 | #1,723 | 6 | — | |
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Alejandra! It came in at #1,723, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1901–1910, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alejandra is popular in 1956
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#963 · 1 in 14,353
- California#1,114 · 1 in 22,346
Best ever in a state: #38 in California, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #963 | 8 | 1 in 14,353 |
| California | #1,114 | 7 | 1 in 22,346 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alejandra
- 26 spots since 2024 (#578 → #604)
- 59 spots since 2020 (#545 → #604)
- 153 spots since 2015 (#451 → #604)
- Biggest jump: 256 spots in 1972 (#1,074 → #818)
- Biggest drop: 79 spots in 1973 (#818 → #897)
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 1994 at #145 (2,187 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1972–2025
- Highest: 1 in 817 girls born in 1994 were named Alejandra (0.12%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,307 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 35.2% of all girls named Alejandra (19,011) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | #1,723 (1900) | #1,723 |
| 1910s | 82 | #1,805 (1918) | #2,835 |
| 1920s | 166 | #1,825 (1929) | #2,252 |
| 1930s | 129 | #1,877 (1932) | #2,590 |
| 1940s | 155 | #1,778 (1948) | #2,553 |
| 1950s | 160 | #2,116 (1951) | #2,891 |
| 1960s | 411 | #1,276 (1969) | #1,877 |
| 1970s | 2,073 | #506 (1979) | #803 |
| 1980s | 5,561 | #291 (1989) | #413 |
| 1990s | 19,011 | #145 (1994) | #165 |
| 2000s | 15,544 | #174 (2000) | #220 |
| 2010s | 7,593 | #279 (2010) | #432 |
| 2020s | 3,124 | #545 (2020) | #577 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alejandra in 1956
Top girls' names in 1956
More about 1956
girls
2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 111,539 of them was named Alejandra, which outranked 60.5% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,622Viveca19
- #2,622Yvonna19
- #2,622Zulma19
- #2,725Alejandra18
- #2,725Arie18
- #2,725Avery18
- #2,725Bernette18
- #2,826Alena17
- #2,826Almeta17
- #2,826Alvera17
Tied with 100 names at #2,725; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.