Aleksandrs
Around 200 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and it's given less often now than the typical name today. From Greek, it means "defender of mankind".
Aleksandrs Pronunciation
Aleksandrs is pronounced ah-LEK-sahndrs (/aˈlɛksandrs/).
What Aleksandrs means
Where Aleksandrs comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aleksandrs takes its shape from Greek. The source is Alexandros, formed from alexein, to defend, and andros, of man. That pairing gives the meaning Polish still uses: obrońca ludzi, defender of mankind.
In Poland the fuller spelling Aleksander is the one you meet on documents, and Aleksandra stands beside it as the name for a daughter. The diminutives handle everything else. A teacher reads Olek from the class register. Friends drop it to Aleks. An older aunt holds on to Oleś long after the boy has grown.
Kings carried the name before any child did. Alexander the Great pushed Greek speech and Greek forms far to the east, and the name traveled with his reputation for taking and holding ground. Poland picked it up through its saints and its rulers, among them Aleksander Jagiellończyk, crowned king in 1501. The Greek sense has not drifted. A child called Aleksander is still, by that old reckoning, a defender of people.
How many people are named Aleksandrs
1 in 103622 men in Poland is named Aleksandrs. 206 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2185 among male names.
Aleksandrs as a middle name
Aleksandrs is a first name for 206 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7140th, between Aleg (2) and Aleksei (2).
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#7138 Alechko2
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#7139 Aleg2
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#7140 Aleksandrs2
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#7141 Aleksei2
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#7142 Alekxander2