Entry № 411 · Greek origin

Aleksandra Aleksandra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-lek-SAN-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Defender of man (Macedonian-Slavic + Alexander the Great)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "defender of man (macedonian-slavic + alexander the great)".

Aleksandra is from the Macedonian / Polish / Russian Александра (Aleksandra) — Slavic rendition of Alexandra (Greek Aléxō defender + anēr/andros man) — defender of mankind. Aleksandra is one of the Macedonian + Polish + Russian + Serbian feminine names — central to traditional Slavic Orthodox + Catholic heritage.

Defender of man (Macedonian-Slavic-Greek).

The name in its native script.

Александра
Transliteration
Aleksandra
Pronunciation
/ ɑː.lɛkˈsɑːn.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aleksandra stands.

Aleksandra does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aleksandras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Alexander the Great
Macedonian king 356-323 BCE + Hellenistic founder.

Names connected to Aleksandra.

The number behind Aleksandra.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aleksandra reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.