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Alexandre - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Alexandre

[ 4 syll. a-le-xan-dre, al-exand-re ] The boy name Alexandre is pronounced as aeLihKSAANDer KEY. Alexandre is largely used in Catalan, French, Galician, Hungarian, and Portuguese. It is derived from Old Greek origins. Alexandre is a form of the name Alexander (Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic).

Alexandre is uncommon as a baby boy name. At the height of its usage in 2003, 0.008% of baby boys were named Alexandre. It had a ranking of #940 then. The baby name has seen a fall in popularity since then, and is now of very modest use. Within the family of boy names directly related to Alexandre, Alexander (Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic) was the most regularly used in 2008.

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

A famous person named Alexandre is Author, Alexandre (the Elder) Dumas, born 24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870, Villers-Cotterets, France.

KEY: English pronunciation for Alexandre: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"


 
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