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Alexandra
Given Name
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| 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 a 'h' at the end |
| Wikipedia articles |
All pages beginning with Alexandra |
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]
People
People with Alexandra as the full name
People with the given name Alexandra
- Alexandra Caso, a Dominican Republic volleyball player
- Alexandra Dahlström, a Swedish actress
- Alexandra David-Néel, a French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer
- 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
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
Shortened to
- ^ The Mycenaean World, by John Chadwick, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976, 1999 [1]
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