How popular is “Alejandra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alejandra” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alejandra” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alejandra” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alejandra” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alejandra” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alejandra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alejandra” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1900	6	0.000013326	6		100%
1910	5	0.000008464	5		100%
1911	6	0.000009313	6		100%
1913	5	0.000004397	5		100%
1914	6	0.000004236	6		100%
1915	8	0.000004366	8		100%
1916	14	0.000007237	14		100%
1917	12	0.00000598	12		100%
1918	21	0.000009672	21		100%
1919	5	0.000002369	5		100%
1920	14	0.000006187	14		100%
1921	11	0.000004712	11		100%
1922	18	0.000007863	18		100%
1923	20	0.000008686	20		100%
1924	18	0.000007558	18		100%
1925	17	0.000007286	17		100%
1926	22	0.000009582	22		100%
1927	12	0.000005174	12		100%
1928	14	0.000006192	14		100%
1929	20	0.000009123	20		100%
1930	18	0.000008096	18		100%
1931	15	0.000007128	15		100%
1932	18	0.000008526	18		100%
1933	17	0.000008502	17		100%
1934	6	0.000002889	6		100%
1935	13	0.00000622	13		100%
1936	14	0.000006739	14		100%
1937	7	0.000003285	7		100%
1938	5	0.00000226	5		100%
1939	16	0.000007261	16		100%
1940	12	0.000005211	12		100%
1941	7	0.000002873	7		100%
1942	11	0.000004027	11		100%
1943	7	0.00000248	7		100%
1944	20	0.000007435	20		100%
1945	20	0.000007539	20		100%
1946	13	0.000004068	13		100%
1947	19	0.000005274	19		100%
1948	28	0.00000811	28		100%
1949	18	0.000005165	18		100%
1950	15	0.000004282	15		100%
1951	22	0.000005972	22		100%
1952	15	0.000003949	15		100%
1953	9	0.000002335	9		100%
1954	13	0.000003266	13		100%
1955	20	0.000004981	20		100%
1956	18	0.000004366	18		100%
1957	18	0.000004284	18		100%
1958	12	0.000002903	12		100%
1959	18	0.000004329	18		100%
1960	30	0.000007222	30		100%
1961	26	0.000006277	26		100%
1962	36	0.000008921	36		100%
1963	31	0.000007832	31		100%
1964	48	0.000012347	48		100%
1965	39	0.000010757	39		100%
1966	30	0.000008631	30		100%
1967	45	0.000013255	45		100%
1968	49	0.000014504	49		100%
1969	77	0.000022156	77		100%
1970	78	0.000021628	78		100%
1971	112	0.000032631	112		100%
1972	168	0.000053452	162	6	93%
1973	139	0.000046074	139		100%
1974	165	0.000054276	158	7	92%
1975	183	0.000060608	183		100%
1976	293	0.000096563	293		100%
1977	259	0.000081536	259		100%
1978	297	0.000093577	297		100%
1979	398	0.000119627	392	6	97%
1980	474	0.00013761	463	11	95%
1981	503	0.000145402	488	15	94%
1982	504	0.000143673	489	15	94%
1983	558	0.000161116	535	23	92%
1984	468	0.000134145	458	10	96%
1985	494	0.00013841	477	17	93%
1986	549	0.00015434	526	23	92%
1987	545	0.000151153	528	17	94%
1988	721	0.000195126	701	20	94%
1989	913	0.000237485	895	18	96%
1990	1407	0.000355979	1376	31	96%
1991	1673	0.000429496	1641	32	96%
1992	2081	0.000541747	2044	37	96%
1993	2158	0.000572371	2126	32	97%
1994	2223	0.000597958	2187	36	97%
1995	2027	0.000553499	2001	26	97%
1996	1969	0.000539867	1955	14	99%
1997	1930	0.000532304	1906	24	98%
1998	2035	0.000553259	2020	15	99%
1999	1768	0.000478631	1754	14	98%
2000	1871	0.000494986	1861	10	99%
2001	1735	0.000463484	1718	17	98%
2002	1694	0.000453148	1694		100%
2003	1678	0.00044131	1667	11	99%
2004	1641	0.000429477	1630	11	99%
2005	1592	0.000414061	1583	9	99%
2006	1493	0.000377383	1487	6	99%
2007	1381	0.00034545	1376	5	99%
2008	1329	0.000338111	1329		100%
2009	1199	0.00031386	1199		100%
2010	1188	0.000321451	1188		100%
2011	929	0.000253978	929		100%
2012	785	0.000214635	785		100%
2013	725	0.000198866	725		100%
2014	724	0.000195339	717	7	98%
2015	703	0.000189953	703		100%
2016	721	0.000196527	721		100%
2017	617	0.00017253	617		100%
2018	608	0.000172929	608		100%
2019	600	0.000172864	600		100%
2020	556	0.000166438	551	5	98%
2021	479	0.000141383	479		100%
2022	529	0.000156364	529		100%
2023	553	0.000167009	553		100%
2024	523	0.000157128	523		100%

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