Alexander

Alexander is one of the longest names in this dictionary, and that length alone accounts for its comparatively high ordinal and reverse-ordinal totals — a reminder that in ordinal gematria, a name's numeric value is driven mostly by letter count, not by its historical weight. The name comes from Greek roots meaning "defender of men," and its long-running popularity across cultures owes at least as much to Alexander the Great carrying it into the ancient world's collective memory as to the meaning itself. Its many common shortened forms — Alex, Xander, Sasha — each produce a completely different gematria value, illustrating how sensitive these calculations are to which exact spelling a person actually uses.