Alejandro: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced ah-leh-HAHN-droh · 4 syllables

Alejandro means “defender of man”, from Spanish and Greek.

Borrowed from Spanish Alejandro, from Ancient Greek (Alexandros, literally “defender of man”), an epithet of the goddess Hera. Doublet of Alexander.

How popular is Alejandro?

Alejandro was the #195 name in the US in 2025, given to 1,842 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 2000.

Babies named Alejandro in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2000).

Country	Rank
United States	#195
Scotland	#711

Half of US adults named Alejandro are older than 29; most are between 19 and 56. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Alejandro have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Alejandro means “defender of man”. It comes from Spanish and Greek.

Alejandro is pronounced ah-leh-HAHN-droh.

Alejandro was the #195 name in the US in 2025, given to 1,842 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 2000.

Half of US adults named Alejandro are older than 29. Most are between 19 and 56.