Iskander
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Protector
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɪskændɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iskander is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 416K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Protector
Cited for this meaning 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iskander 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 32K | listed | Iskander | 85 |
| US United States | 799 | 1 in 416K | 962 | Iskander | 223 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 110K | listed | Iskander | 16 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Iskander | 35 |
| CA Canada | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 1 | Iskander | 78 |
| SE Sweden | 157 | 1 in 65K | 157 | Iskander | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Iskander | 29 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alexandr Nikolajewitsch Iskanderb. 1887FR(1889-1935)
- Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskanderb. 1917RURussian princess (1917–1999)
- Fazil Iskanderb. 1929RUSoviet and Russian writer (1929–2016)
- Abdur Razzaq Iskanderb. 1935PKPakistani Islamic scholar
- Bahget Iskanderb. 1943HUHungarian cinematographer
- Amin Iskanderb. 1952EGEgyptian politician and writer
- Maryana Iskanderb. 1975EGAmerican social entrepreneur and lawyer, CEO of Wikimedia Foundation (2022-2026)
- Ramilya Iskanderb. 1977RURussian actor
- Michael Iskanderb. 2001EGEgyptian actor and singer
- Qara IskanderAZThe second sultan of Qara Qoyunlu dynasty (1420–1435)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 962 | #26,682 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 799 | #29,528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 530 | #39,111 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 157 | #5,055 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iskander mean, and where does it come from?
- Protector Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Iskander?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪskændɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Iskander have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Iskander in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iskander.
- How common is the name Iskander?
- In the United States, the national register counted 799 people named Iskander in 2010, about 1 in 416 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iskanderThe 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, “Iskander”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.