Entry № 415 · Italian origin

Alessandra Alessandra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-leh-SAHN-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Defender of men (Alessandra Ambrosio, Victoria's Secret Angel)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "defender of men (alessandra ambrosio, victoria's secret angel)".

Alessandra is the Italian feminine of Alessandro — from the Greek Alexandros, alexein (to defend) + aner (man). Forbes World's Highest-Paid Models list every year 2008-2017. Carried the Olympic torch in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and walked the opening ceremony as one of Brazil's three flag-bearers. Alessandra Mussolini — Italian politician (granddaughter of Benito).

Defender of men.

The name in its native script.

Alessandra
Transliteration
Alessandra
Pronunciation
/ ˌæl.ɪˈsæn.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alessandra stands.

Alessandra 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.

Alessandras before her.

Real people
Alessandra Ambrosio
Brazilian supermodel.
born 1981
Alessandra Ferri
Italian prima ballerina.
born 1963
In fiction
Alessandra
Various Italian opera.

Names connected to Alessandra.

The number behind Alessandra.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alessandra reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.