Aleksandr is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Aleksandr is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Aleksandr. In the SmartGenius ranking, Aleksandr is #2,216 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Aleksandr.
In fact, the name Aleksandr did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Aleksandr seemed to be more popular than ever in 2016. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,825, 72 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Aleksandr, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Aleksandr was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Aleksandr a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,739 - with a total of 39 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of having a man or boy named Aleksandr in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Aleksandr is registered in 11 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Aleksandr live in Washington, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 33,422 men and boys in Washington for their name before you meet one who answers with Aleksandr.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With nine letters, the name Aleksandr is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Aleksandr and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aleksandr, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Koala
Sun
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aleksandr
Aleksandr
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
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K
S
A
N
D
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
E
K
S
A
N
D
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aleksandr sounds like this:
