Given name & surname
Alejandro
“helper and defender of mankind”
Alejandro is a form of Alexander. One Greek interpretation is “helper and defender of mankind.”
Original Spanishอาเลฆันโด๎ร
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Spanish use, Alejandro carries the interpretation “helper and defender of mankind.” Alejandro is a form of Alexander. One Greek interpretation is “helper and defender of mankind.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
In Spanish use, Alejandro is used as a form of Alexander.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1885. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alejandro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 147,470
- 146,624 boys · 846 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 4,577 babies
- 2025
- 1,842
- #195 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −4%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 1,842 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 195 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 4.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 4,557 in 2001. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (471). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 180,051 as a first name in 2020; 7,798 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alejandro’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Alejandro has a diminutive in Al. Alejandro shares a linguistic root with Alexander. In Spanish usage, Alejandro has a conventional equivalent in the Breton form Aleksandr.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Alejandro has relatives in 69 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Spanishwhere Alejandro comes from · 7 names
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 77
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Alexanderdoublet · Spanish, English
- Alessandrodoublet · Spanish, Portuguese
- Alistairequivalent
- AleksanderPolish, Norwegian Bokmål
- AlexandrePortuguese, French
- Sandroequivalent
- AleksandrBreton
- AlasdairScottish Gaelic, Scots
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- AleksandarSerbo-Croatian
- Oleksandrequivalent
- AlexandrCzech
- Alexandruborrowing · Asturian, Romanian
- Aleksequivalent
- IskanderIndonesian
- AlastarIrish
- Androequivalent
- IskandarUzbek
- AleksandrsLatvian
- SkenderKurdish
- AlecsanderWelsh
- Àlexequivalent
- Lissandriequivalent
- Lissanderequivalent
- Alissandruequivalent
- АлександрRussian
- ალექსანდრეGeorgian
- АлександарSerbian, Macedonian
- Andreoloequivalent
- אַלעקסאַנדערYiddish
- Aleksandrivo
- AlêchxăngđrơVietnamese
- سكندرUrdu
- ОлександрUkrainian
- İskenderTurkish
- İskändärTatar
- อเล็กซานเดอร์Thai
- LissandruSicilian
- اسکندرPersian
- OllisterManx
- AleksandrasLithuanian
- アレクサンダーJapanese
- SándorHungarian
- सिकन्दरHindi
- אלכסנדרHebrew
- Ἀλέξανδροςsource · Ancient Greek
- ΑλέξανδροςGreek
- 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌿𐍃Gothic
- AleksanteriFinnish
- AleksandroEsperanto
- Lisàndareml
- 알렉산더Korean
- 亚历山大Chinese
- 亞歷山大Chinese
- АлександърBulgarian
- АляксандрBelarusian
- İsgəndərAzerbaijani
- AleixandreAsturian
- ԱլեքսանդրArmenian
- AlixandreAragonese
- إسكندرArabic
And 17 more.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Alejandro
- Alejandro González IñárrituMexican film directorborn 1963
- Alejandro JodorowskyChilean-French filmmaker and comics writerborn 1929
- Alejandro BaldeSpanish-Dominican association football playerborn 2003
- Alejandro ToledoPresident of Peru from 2001 to 2006born 1945
- Alejandro AmenábarSpanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composerborn 1972
- Alejandro GarnachoSpanish-Argentine association football playerborn 2004
- Álex GrimaldoSpanish association football player (born 1995)
- Alejandro SabellaArgentine association football player and manager (1954-2020)
- Papu GómezArgentine association football playerborn 1988
Characters named Alejandro: Alejandro Sosa (Scarface.).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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