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My mother's mn is Alexandra, so Alexander shows up in a lot of my combos. I don't care about general popularity, but I personally know more than a few little Alexanders (plus at least one "just Alex," a Lex, a few Xanders/Zanders, and more girls than I care to count named Alexandra, Alexandria, Alexis, Alexa, Alexia, and Lexi) so it is too overused for me to use it as first name. I don't think it's plain or boring, though, and I do like it.

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Xander is still too Buffy for me. There's something self-conscious about Xander, like it's trying too hard to be cooler than Alex, maybe. Lex works well, though I don't really like it. I much prefer it as a nn for Alexander than as a standalone.

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Alex is always going to be my favorite nn, for boys or girls, for this whole family of names, but I also really like Sandy, particularly for a boy.