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Alexander

in Wisconsin

There are 1,671 people with the last name "Alexander" in Wisconsin.

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Alexander 215
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  1. is 211th most common Swenson
  2. is 212th most common Torres
  3. is 213th most common Hoffmann
  4. is 214th most common Welch
  5. is 215th most common Alexander
  6. is 216th most common Hintz
  7. is 217th most common Baumann
  8. is 218th most common Simon
  9. is 219th most common Wegner

Similar Names and Nicknames

Alex, Alexis, Alexandre, Alexandra, Alexopoulos, Alexa, Alexanian, Alexy, Alexie, Alexiou

Most Common First Names for Alexander

Michael, Mary, James, John, Linda, Robert, William, Susan, David, Richard

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Meaning & History

Scottish, English, German, Dutch; also found in many other cultures: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great (356–323 BC)—or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria (AD c.250–326), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames, for example Mc Allister. Alexander is a common forename in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America the form Alexander has absorbed many cases of cognate names from other languages, for example Spanish Alejandro, Italian Alessandro, Greek Alexandropoulos, Russian Aleksandr, etc. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.) It has also been adopted as a Jewish name.

FOREBEARS A number of Scotch-Irish families of this name landed at New York in the early 18th century. By 1746, six of them were established in NC. Others came in through Philadelphia, for example Archibald Alexander, who came from Londonderry in northern Ireland in 1736 and established himself in VA.The Revolutionary general William Alexander (1726–83) was always known as ‘Lord Sterling’ to his compatriots, although his claim to the title was denied by the College of Arms in London. His father, James Alexander, was a Jacobite who had fled to New York after the failure of the Jacobite rising in 1715. The claim to the title arose in connection with their ancestor Sir William Alexander, a courtier and poet at the court of King James VI of Scotland (James I of England), who created him Earl of Stirling in 1633.

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