Given name · also Latin
Alecsander
Alecsander is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Welsh.
Original LatinAlexander
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Alecsander comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Welsh usage, Alecsander developed from Ἀλέξανδρος.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alecsander through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 245
- 245 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 225 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alecsander’s family of names
In Welsh usage, Alecsander developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀλέξανδρος. In Welsh usage, Alecsander was borrowed from the Latin form Alexander. In Welsh usage, Alecsander has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Alejandro.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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