Alessandro - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 4 syll. a-les-san-dro, al-essand-ro ] The boy name Alessandro is pronounced aaLeyZAANDRow or aaLahSAENDRow ^KEY. Alessandro's language of origin is Old Greek. It is predominantly used in Italian and Spanish. Alessandro is a form of the Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic Alexander. A variant of the name is the Italian and Spanish short form Sandro.

Alessandro is a rather popular baby boy name. The name has been growing in popularity since the 1990s; prior to that, it was of only very modest use. Its usage peaked recently in 2008 with 0.018% of baby boys being named Alessandro. It had a ranking of #624 then. In 2008, among the family of boy names directly related to Alessandro, the Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic Alexander was the most regularly used. It was more frequently used than Alessandro by 47 times in that year.

Baby names that sound like Alessandro include the Slavic Aleksandar, the Albanian, Estonian, Polish, Slavic, and Yiddish Aleksander, the Russian Aleksandr, the Esperanto Aleksandro, the Slavic Aleksandur, the Basque Alesander, the Spanish Alesandro, the Brazilian Alessandre, the Chilean Alessandri, the Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic Alexander, the Catalan, French, Galician, Hungarian, and Portuguese Alexandre, the English Alisander, the English Alissander, the Ukrainian Alyksandr, the Ukrainian Oleksander, the Russian and Ukrainian Oleksandr, the Finnish Aleksanteri, the Irish Alsandair, the Irish Alsandare, and the Irish Alsander.

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