Alexander?

[Charles1986]

What do people think about this, with Alec or Alex for short? Full name will be Alexander Francis Jackson. I know it’s meant to be popular, but I can’t say I’ve ever met an Alec/Alex/Alexander in my life. Thanks

Our boy is a Finlay Alexander and we call him his full middle name.
I think your choice goes well, even if he got ‘Alex’ etc for short.

Alexander is a gorgeous name.
You can’t fault it. The name Alex is strong and masculine for a man yet its pretty and elegant for a women.
DD’s BF is an Alex ,just Alex on his BC.

A classic name. I love it.

Lovely name

Good, solid classic name.

Haha, I was going to write pretty much the same as @worstwitch18... Alexander is good, classic and solid!

You can't go wrong with such a name. The one I knew best went by Xan! But Alex, Lex, Alec (and Sandy in Scotland!) are good diminutives too.

I know lots of male and female friends called Alex. It's quite popular as a unisex name.

My son is called Alexander and I still love saying it, 19 years later! We shorten it to Xander or Xand but often use the full name. I think it’s a gorgeous name!

Never liked it. Too long and fussy. I don’t think it’s particularly popular at the moment though; I only know one child Alex and she’s female. It was their ‘boy’ name, but they ended up with girl girl twins so they used it anyway.

Lovely name, classy, and classic, any Alexander I know are shorted to Alex . It was on our list of boys names so I am biased

I’ve got an Alexander. We shorten it to Xander. Love it

I love it. Especially sasha for short.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider I have to disagree Alex is pretty for a girl. Alex, Sam, Chris and Charlie are all far too masculine/tomboyish for a girl imo.

@VenusClapTrap I think Alexandra is kind of tacky, like you can’t really just take a boys name, stick an “a” on the end of it and then it’s suddenly feminine imo.

@AntiHop how do you get Sasha from Alexander? Can’t say I’ve heard that before.

I've also heard Sandy as a diminutive.

I like it very much. I only know one Alexander, about 8 now. So not that common at the moment round here.

A good, solid name.

Sasha is the Russian diminutive of Aleksandr, and it's a very common shortening across all of mainland Europe and also in UK

I think Alexander is a lovely name. I think I prefer Alex to Alec, but there are so many nn options, you may find a different one grows on you

Very popular in Scotland, which was one of the reasons we ruled it out for DS but it was one of the top ones in our list.

I love it. I like names that are strong, classic but have a casual shortening that makes you think "top bloke".
Alex/Sandy is a top bloke.

It's a beautiful name!