Alejandra
Only about 180 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. A Spanish form of a Greek name meaning "defender of mankind".
Alejandra Pronunciation
Alejandra is pronounced ah-le-YAHND-rah (/alɛˈjandra/).
What Alejandra means
Where Alejandra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Alejandra begins in Greek, in the old name Alexandros. Inside it sit two elements: the verb alexein, to defend, and andros, the man. Together they spell the meaning that follows the name everywhere, defender of mankind.
Spanish took Alejandro from that root and shaped Alejandra as its feminine form. From Spain the name crossed to Latin America. The Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, born in 1936, carried it into modern literature. Her verse is spare and dark.
In a Polish class register, Alejandra stands out among the Zuzannas and Julias. It arrives without a Polish diminutive of its own, no softening into a home-form. What it brings instead is the plain Greek reading underneath: obrończyni ludzi, one who defends people. That sense was never a later gloss added on top. It is the literal reading of Alexandros, defender of mankind.
How many people are named Alejandra
1 in 125244 women in Poland is named Alejandra. 180 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2366 among female names.
Alejandra as a middle name
Alejandra is a first name for 180 women in Poland and a middle name for another 480, a 27/73 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 317th, between Christina (490) and Nel (478).
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#315 Mercedes491
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#316 Christina490
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#317 Alejandra480
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#318 Nel478
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#319 Linda474