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Oleksandra

The Ukrainian counterpart to Aleksandra, from a Slavic root meaning "defender of men". Meeting one in Poland stays memorable: after a recent spike the name is now given to fewer girls each year.

Oleksandra Pronunciation

Oleksandra is pronounced o-lek-SAHND-rah (/ɔlɛkˈsandra/).

Alive in 2025
24,654
Newborns 2025
37
National rank
#255

What Oleksandra means

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

Oleksandra is the Ukrainian form of the name Polish speakers write as Aleksandra. Its short meaning, defender of men, reaches back through the Greek Alexandros, built from alexein, to defend, and aner, man. Slavic speech took that old sense and reshaped the opening, turning the hard Al into a rounded Ole.

At home the name shortens to Ola. On an official form at the urząd it straightens back to Oleksandra, full and formal. The masculine partner is Oleksandr, and both forms lean on the same root of protection.

The meaning is worth keeping in view. A defender of men need not carry a weapon. What the name guards can be a household, a language, a memory. Say it slowly and you count four beats: O, lek, san, dra, with the older Aleksandra standing just behind.

How many people are named Oleksandra

1 in 915 women in Poland is named Oleksandra. 24,654 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #255 among female names.

People with the name Oleksandra 2019 → 2025
24,654 +21,659 since 2019
2020 3,857 +862
2021 4,875 +1,018
2022 6,430 +1,555
2023 21,640 +15,210
2024 23,306 +1,666
2025 24,654 +1,348

Oleksandra's popularity over time

37 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #412 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2012. Still the #255 name among living women, even as it slips to #412 among newborns.

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37 newborns with the name Oleksandra in 2025
national rank #412 that year

Where Oleksandra is most popular

Oleksandra is most popular in Lower Silesian, 101% above the national average (26 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+65%) and Masovian (+64%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Świętokrzyskie, 67% and 56% below average respectively.

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Oleksandra as a middle name

Oleksandra is a first name for 24,654 women in Poland and a middle name for another 53, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 941st, between Ngoc (53) and Waltraud (53).

As a first name
24,654
As a middle name
53
first name 100% middle name 0%
Middle-name ranking women

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