Key facts
- Given name.name
- Alexander
- Given name.image
- Istanbul - Museo archeol. - Alessandro Magno (firmata Menas) - sec. III a.C. - da Magnesia - Foto G. Dall'Orto 28-5-2006 b-n.jpg
- Given name.caption
- Statue of Alexander the Great, whose fame popularized the name's use throughout Europe and Asia
- Given name.gender
- Male
- Given name.name day
- August 30
- Given name.origin
- Via Latin Alexander, originally from the Greek (Aléxandros), from aléxein meaning "to ward off, keep off, turn away, defend, protect" and andrós, genitive of anḗr meaning "man".
- Given name.meaning
- "Defender, protector of man"
- Given name.nickname
- Alex, Alec, Al, Xander, Zander
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- male given name
- Said to be same as
- Alexandr
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- Commons category
- Alexander (given name)
- different from
- Q1699786
- language of work or name
- Swedish
- name day
- December 12
- native label
- Alexander
- transliteration or transcription
- Александер
- given name version for other gender
- Q6081128
- family name identical to this given name
- Q1511218
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- A425
- Cologne phonetics
- 0548627
- Caverphone
- ALKNTA1111
- P8168
- Villarreal CF
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