Alexander (Greek), Alessandro (Italian), Alejandro (Spanish)

Meaning: (Man's Defender, Defending Men, Defender of Men, Latinized form of the Greek name Αλεξανδρος (Alexandros), which meant "defending men" from Greek αλεξω (alexo) "to defend, help" and ανηρ (aner) "man" (genitive ανδρος). In Greek mythology this was another name of the hero Paris, and it also belongs to several characters in the New Testament. However, the most famous bearer was Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia. In the 4th century BC he built a huge empire out of Greece, Egypt, Persia, and parts of India. Due to his fame, and later medieval tales involving him, use of his name spread throughout Europe.
The name has been used by kings of Scotland, Poland and Yugoslavia, emperors of Russia, and eight popes. Other notable bearers include English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), American statesman Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), Scottish-Canadian explorer Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764-1820), Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), and Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor of the telephone.)

Origin: Greek, English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Hungarian, Biblical

Pronunciation: al-əg-ZAN-dər (English), ah-lek-SAHN-der (German), ah-lək-SAHN-dər (Dutch)

Gender: Male

This is a very common and sometimes overused name. It does have a strong meaning and from the persons bearing this name it is usually given to larger than life characters. Alessandro the Italian version I have been using on an on going novel and Alexander I used as the child of one of my Main Character in another novel. And everyone now knows of the Spanish version Alejandro from both the Lady Gaga song where she says it quite a lot and also from the Planters commercial and the Almond named Alejandro.