Entry № 420 · Greek origin

Alexandra Alexandra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ al-eg-ZAN-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Defender of mankind (Empress Alexandra Romanov)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "defender of mankind (empress alexandra romanov)".

Alexandra is from the Greek Alexandra (Ἀλεξάνδρα — defender of mankind) — feminine of Alexandros. Alexandra is one of the pan-European feminine names.

Defender of mankind (Greek).

The name in its native script.

Ἀλεξάνδρα
Transliteration
Alexandra
Pronunciation
/ ˌæ.lɛɡˈzɑːn.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alexandra stands.

Alexandra 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.

Alexandras before her.

Real people
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov
Last Empress of Russia + canonized Passion Bearer 2000.
1872 – 1918
In fiction
Alexandra
Greek defender of mankind.

Names connected to Alexandra.

The number behind Alexandra.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alexandra reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.