Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Xande is a diminutive of Alexandre. Alexandre comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Xande is a diminutive of Alexandre.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Xande through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 5 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 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Xande’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Xande is a diminutive of Alexandre. In Portuguese usage, Xande has a later derivative in ചാണ്ടി.
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 Xande
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.