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Alexandra Given Name
Gender	Female
Meaning	"Protector of man"
Origin	Greek
Related names	Alexander, Cassandra, Alessandra, Alejandra, Alexandria, Sandra, Aleksandra, Alexa, Alexis, Lexy, Lexi, Leksa, Lexa, Alex, Alexzandra, Zandra, Alexz, Aleks, Alezx, Kassandra Xandra, Alexza, Alekzander, Alekzandra, Alix, Allix, Alexi, Olesia, and Olesya, Sasha All the names ending with an 'a' can be spelled with an 'h' at the end.
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Alexandra (Greek: Αλεξάνδρα) is the feminine form of the given name Alexander, which is a romanization of the Greek name Αλέξανδρος (Alexandros). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ἀλέξειν (alexein) "to defend" and the noun ἀνδρός (andros), genitive of ἀνήρ (anēr) "man". Thus it may be roughly translated as "protector of man". The earliest attested record of the name is the Mycenaean Alexandra, written in Linear B.^[1]

1 People
- 1.1 People with Alexandra as the full name
- 1.2 People with the given name Alexandra
2 Places
3 Other
4 Shortened to
5 Varients
6 See also

People

People with Alexandra as the full name

Alexandra or Cassandra, a prophetess in Greek mythology
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg (born 1964), former wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark
Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born 1970)
Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), consort of King Edward

People with the given name Alexandra

Alexandra Caso, a Dominican Republic volleyball player
Alexandra Charles, Swedish nightclub queen, often referred to as just Alexandra
Alexandra Dahlström, a Swedish actress
Alexandra David-Néel, a French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer
Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II of Russia
Alexandra Shiryaeva, a Russian beach volleyball player
Alexandra Tydings, an American actress
Alexandra Tolstaya, daughter of Leo Tolstoy
Alexz Johnson, star of The- N show, Instant Star
Alexandra Pena, grand-daughter of judo champion Patrick Budowski

Places

Alexandra, New Zealand, town in the South Island
Alexandra, Oldham, an electoral ward and locality of the town of Oldham, England
Alexandra, South Africa, township near Johannesburg
Alexandra, Victoria, a rural town in Australia
Alexandra Bridge, a Canadian inter-provincial bridge linking Gatineau, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario

Other

Alexandra's Project an Australian film starring Gary Sweet and Helen Buday
Alexandra (poem), a poem by Mongane Wally Serote
Alexandra (plant), a genus of flowering plants
Alexandra (film), a 2007 film by Alexander Sokurov
HMY Alexandra, a British royal yacht
HMS Alexandra (1875), a British Victorian-era ironclad battleship
54 Alexandra, an asteroid
Alexandra (1905 automobile), an early British automobile
Alexandra School, the name of several schools around to world

Shortened to

Alex
Allie
Ali
Alee
Alli
Andra
Lexi
Lexie
Lex
Lexy
Lexa
Ally
Xandra
Alexa
Sandra
Ale
Sasha
Alix
Allix
Lesh
Olesia
Ola
Alixa

^ The Mycenaean World, by John Chadwick, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976, 1999 [1]

Varients

Alexandra has around 111 variant forms: Alandra, Alastrina, Alastriona, Alejanda, Alejandra, Alejandrina, Aleka, Alekanederina, Aleki, Aleksandra, Alesandare, Alesandere, Alessanda, Alessandra, Alessandre, Alessandrina, Alessandrine, Alessia, Alex, Alee, Alexa, Alexanda, Alexanderia, Alexanderine, Alexandre, Alexandrea, Alexandreana, Alexandrena, Alexandrene, Alexandretta, Alexandria, Alexandrina, Alexandrine, Alexea, Alexena, Alexene, Alexi, Alexia, Alexie, Alexina, Alexine, Alexis, Alexsandra, Ali, Aliki, Alissandre, Alissandrine, Alista, Alix, Alixandra, Alixandria, Alla, Allejandra, Allejandrina, Allessa, Allessandra, Alle, Allexa, Allexandra, Allexandrina, Allexina, Allexine, Alli, Allie, Allix, Ally, Alyxandra, Anda, Cesya, Dzana, Elena, Ellena, Lesy, Lesya, Lex, Lexa, Lexi, Lexie, Lexine, Lexy, Lisandra, Lisandrina, Lisandrine, Lissandra, Lissandre, Lissandrine, Sanda, Sande, Sandee, Sandi, Sandie, Sandra, Sandrina, Sandrine, Sandy, Sandye, Sanndra, Sannie, Sasha, Sashenka, Shura, Shurochka, Sinisa, Sohndra, Sondra, Xandra, Zahndra, Zanda, Zandra, Zanndra, Zohndra and Zondra.