Alexandre is the French and Portuguese form of Alexander, from the Greek Alexandros, which means "defender of men" or "protector of the people". The novelist Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, is its most famous bearer, and in the United States the name is used mostly by French-speaking and Brazilian families. Alexandre entered the top 1000 in 2003 at its peak of number 946 and has since drifted to number 2148 in 2025.