Aleksander

Aleksander: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“defender of men”
Origin
Greek
Say it
ah-lek-SAHN-der · 4 syllables
Used for
Boys

Slavic and Polish spelling of Alexander, from Greek Alexandros. Widely used across Eastern Europe in this form or close variants.

How popular is Aleksander?

202430.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Aleksander in 2024100

2024 rank#1,671 boys

Peak year2014

Total US babies since 18804,040

Aleksander has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Aleksander

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

Aleksander questions

What does the name Aleksander mean?

Aleksander means "defender of men". It comes from Greek. Slavic and Polish spelling of Alexander, from Greek Alexandros. Widely used across Eastern Europe in this form or close variants.

Is Aleksander a boy or girl name?

Aleksander is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Aleksander?

100 US babies were named Aleksander in 2024. Its peak year was 2014.

How do you pronounce Aleksander?

Aleksander is usually pronounced ah-lek-SAHN-der.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.