Alexandru
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/a.lekˈsan.dru/(recorded in a dictionary) Romanian · from Wiktionary
Alexandru is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name. Alexandru is also written Александру in Cyrillic and อเล็กซานดร in Thai.
- MDMoldova1 in 58(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 100
- ISIceland1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Alexandru itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Alexandru in other scripts: Cyrillic and Thai
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Alexandru
- Romanian:/a.lekˈsan.dru/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alexandru counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #3 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 102 | — | Alexandru | 199 |
| MD Moldova | #3 | 58,511 | 1 in 58 | 59K | Alexandru | 100 |
| IT Italy | #850 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 29 | Alexandru | 105 |
| ES Spain | #750 | 3,729 | 1 in 13K | 3.7K | Alexandru | 107 |
| US United States | — | 2,541 | 1 in 131K | 2.5K | Alexandru | 272 |
| DK Denmark | — | 591 | 1 in 9.9K | 591 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 91 | 1 in 3.9K | 91 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: e-services.md — living population register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Alexandru is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander or Spanish Alejandro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alexander I of Russiab. 1777RUnot in their usual nameThe tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
- Alexander III of Russiab. 1845RUnot in their usual nameEmperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
- Alexander Alekhineb. 1892FRnot in their usual nameRussian-French chess player (1892–1946)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)60 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alexandru mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Alexander Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Alexandru?
- In the etymology graph, Alejandro, Alexander and Alexandre are forms of the same name in other languages; Sandu is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Alexandru?
- In Romanian /a.lekˈsan.dru/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Alexandru?
- Mondonomo estimates about 188 thousand people named Alexandru in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alexandru. After it come Moldova, Italy, Spain and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Alexandru most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alexandru is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 58 people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alexandru?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 58,511 people named Alexandru, about 1 in 58 residents.
- How common is Alexandru compared with other names?
- In Romania, Alexandru is the 3rd most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
- Is Alexandru a male or female name?
- Alexandru is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026) and Norway (SSB), among others.
What do you want to know about Alexandru?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alexandruThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alexandru” — the 3rd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.