Type Word
Usage Ancient Greek
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Given Name DescendantsAleksandër (Albanian) Eskender, Eskinder (Amharic) Alexander, Alexandra, Alexandros, Alexios, Alexis, Alexius (Ancient Greek) Iskandar (Arabic) Aleksandr (Armenian) İsgəndər (Azerbaijani) Alesander (Basque) Aliaksandr, Aliaksandra, Aliaksei, Alyaksandr (Belarusian) Alexander (Biblical) Alexandros (Biblical Greek) Aleksandar (Bosnian) Aleksandar, Aleksandra, Aleksi (Bulgarian) Aleix, Alexandra, Alexandre, Alèxia (Catalan) Aleksandar, Aleksandra (Croatian) Alexandr, Alexandra, Alexej (Czech) Alexander, Alexandra, Aleksander (Danish) Alexander, Alexandra (Dutch) Alexander, Alexandra, Alexandrea, Alexandria, Alexia, Alexis, Alexus, Allison, Alexandrina (English) Aleksandro (Esperanto) Aleksander, Aleksandra (Estonian) Aleksandra, Aleksanteri, Aleksi (Finnish) Alexandra, Alexandre, Alexia, Alexis, Alexandrie (French) Alexandre, Aleixo (Galician) Aleksandra, Aleksandre, Aleksi (Georgian) Alexander, Alexandra (German) Alexandra, Alexandros, Alexia, Alexis (Greek) Alexander, Alexandra, Alexandros (Greek Mythology) Alexander, Alexandra, Elek (Hungarian) Alexander, Alexandra (Icelandic) Iskandar (Indonesian) Alastar, Alastríona (Irish) Alessandra, Alessandro, Alessia, Alessio (Italian) Iskender (Kyrgyz) Aleksandra, Aleksandrs, Aleksejs (Latvian) Aleksandra, Aleksandras (Lithuanian) Aleksandar, Aleksandra (Macedonian) Iskandar (Malay) Aleksander, Alexander, Alexandra (Norwegian) Sikandar (Pashto) Eskandar (Persian) Aleksander, Aleksandra, Aleksy (Polish) Alexandra, Alexandre, Alexandrina, Aleixo (Portuguese) Alison, Alisson (Portuguese (Brazilian)) Alexandra, Alexandrina, Alexandru (Romanian) Aleksandr, Aleksandra, Aleksei, Aleksey, Alexandr, Alexandra, Alexei, Alexey, Alexsandr (Russian) Alastair, Alistair, Alister (Scottish) Alasdair (Scottish Gaelic) Aleksa, Aleksandar, Aleksandra (Serbian) Alexander, Alexandra, Alexej (Slovak) Aleksander, Aleksandra, Aleksej (Slovene) Alejandra, Alejandrina, Alejandro, Alejo, Alexia, Alexis (Spanish) Alexander, Alexandra (Swedish) İskender (Turkish) Oleksander, Oleksandr, Oleksandra, Oleksiy, Olexiy (Ukrainian) Sikandar (Urdu) Iskender (Uyghur)
Surname DescendantsAleksandrov, Aleksandrova (Bulgarian) Alexandersen (Danish) Alexander, Allison (English) Alexandre (French) Alexiou (Greek) Mac Alastair, McAlister (Irish) Alesci, Alescio, Alesi, Alesio, Alessandri, Alessi (Italian) Alexandersen (Norwegian) Alexandre (Portuguese) Alexandrescu, Alexandru (Romanian) Aleksandrov, Aleksandrova, Alekseev, Alekseeva, Alekseyev, Alekseyeva (Russian) McAlister (Scottish) MacAlastair (Scottish Gaelic) Aleksić (Serbian) Alexandersson, Alexanderson (Swedish)
Place Name DescendantsAlexandreia, Alexandria (Ancient Greek) Alexandria (Ancient Roman) Iskandariya (Arabic) Alexandria (English)
Sources & References
- Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry a)le/cw, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Da%29le%2Fcw.
Entry updated May 26, 2026