Given name · also Slavic
Aleksandras
“defender, protector of man”
Aleksandras is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latvian and Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Aleksandras goes back to Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος, meaning “defender, protector of man.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Aleksandras comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Lithuanian usage, Aleksandras developed from Ἀλέξανδρος.
Aleksandras’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Aleksandras developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀλέξανδρος. In Lithuanian usage, Aleksandras has a conventional equivalent in the German form Alexander. In Lithuanian usage, Aleksandras has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Alejandro.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Aleksandras has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Aleksandras comes from · 1 name
Across languages 27
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AlexanderGerman
- AlejandroSpanish
- AlessandroPortuguese, Italian
- AleksanderPolish
- AlexandrePortuguese, French
- Sandroequivalent
- Aleksandrequivalent
- Aleksandarequivalent
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- Alexandrequivalent
- Oleksandrequivalent
- Alexandruequivalent
- Aleksequivalent
- Aleksandrsequivalent
- Àlexequivalent
- Олександрequivalent
- Sándorequivalent
- Lissanderequivalent
- Аляксандарequivalent
- Alissandruequivalent
- Aleksanteriequivalent
- Aleksandroequivalent
- АлександрRussian
- Alaksandarequivalent
- Lisàndarequivalent
- Aleksándrafeminine form
- Ἀλέξανδροςroot · Ancient Greek
- Алеѯандръsource · cu
People named Aleksandras
- Aleksandras StulginskisSecond President of Lithuania (from 19 June 1920 until 7 June 1926)1885–1969
- Aleksandras AbišalaPrime Minister of Lithuaniaborn 1955
- Adomas JakštasLithuanian esperantist1860–1938
- Aleksandras AntipovasLithuanian long-distance runnerborn 1955
- Aleksandras MachtasLithuanian chess player1892–1973
- Aleksandras VanagasLithuanian linguist (1934-1995)
- Aleksandras Trofimovaspolitician (1903-1980)
- Aleksandr BriusovSoviet Russian archeologist (1885-1966)
- Aleksandras ŠtromasLithuanian political scientist (1931–1999)
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