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Aleksandra

Around 390,000 Polish women carry it, common enough that most people know several. It comes from Greek, "defender of mankind", though it's given far less now than a generation ago.

Aleksandra Pronunciation

Aleksandra is pronounced ah-lek-SAHND-rah (/alɛkˈsandra/).

Alive in 2025
390,036
Newborns 2025
1,308
National rank
#22
Next name day
20 March
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What Aleksandra means

Where Aleksandra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Aleksandra reaches back to Greek. The name binds alexein, to defend, to anēr, andros, meaning man, and the sense that settles on it is defender of mankind. The masculine Aleksander runs the same course, and the Latvian Aleksandrs stands close beside it.

The Greek roots are old. They shaped the name of Alexander the Great, whose conquests carried the word east across the ancient world, and the feminine Aleksandra grew from the same stock. In Poland the full form rarely lasts through a morning. From the male side the family also offers Olek, Aleks, and Oleś.

Call out the full Aleksandra from a class register, and a few heads turn, though the girl may answer to something shorter. Whatever the day calls her, the root still reads defender of mankind.

When Aleksandra celebrates name day

Aleksandra appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 20 March.

Next name day
20 March
Saturday in 2027
Next one in 146 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Aleksandra

1 in 58 women in Poland is named Aleksandra. 390,036 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #22 among female names.

People with the name Aleksandra 2019 → 2025
390,036 +7,542 since 2019
2020 384,010 +1,516
2021 386,093 +2,083
2022 387,572 +1,479
2023 389,099 +1,527
2024 389,722 +623
2025 390,036 +314

Aleksandra's popularity over time

1,308 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #55 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #22 name among living women, even as it slips to #55 among newborns.

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1,308 newborns with the name Aleksandra in 2025
national rank #55 that year

Where parents choose Aleksandra

Aleksandra is most popular in Podlaskie, 65% above the national average (873 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Subcarpathian (+42%) and Lesser Poland (+32%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Pomeranian, 32% and 31% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Podlaskie
    +65%
    1 in 75 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    +42%
    1 in 87 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +32%
    1 in 94 babies
Chosen least
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    −32%
    1 in 184 babies
  • Pomeranian
    −31%
    1 in 179 babies
  • Silesian
    −25%
    1 in 166 babies

Aleksandra as a middle name

Aleksandra is a first name for 390,036 women in Poland and a middle name for another 116,155, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 26th, between Jolanta (117,441) and Karolina (112,040).

As a first name
390,036
As a middle name
116,155
first name 77% middle name 23%
Middle-name ranking women

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