Given name
Alejandrina
“helper and defender of mankind”
Alejandrina is a variant of Alexandra. In Greek use, Alexandra carries the interpretation “helper and defender of mankind.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Alejandrina is a variant of Alexandra. In Greek use, Alexandra carries the interpretation “helper and defender of mankind.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alejandrina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,321
- 0 boys · 1,321 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 50 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −20%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 50 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,201 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.
Alejandrina’s family of names
Alejandrina has a related form in Alexandra. In Spanish usage, Alejandrina has a conventional equivalent in the English form Alexandrina.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Alejandrina
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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