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ALEXANDRA
Gender: Feminine Usage: German, Scandinavian, Dutch, French, English, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology Other Scripts: Αλεξανδρα (Greek) Pronounced: ah-lek-SAHN-drah (German), ah-luk-SAHN-drah (Dutch), al-əg-ZAN-drə (English) [key] Feminine form of ALEXANDER. In Greek mythology this was a Mycenaean epithet of the goddess Hera, and an alternate name of Cassandra. It was borne by several early Christian saints, and also by the wife of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia. She was from Germany and had the birth name Alix, but was renamed Alexandra upon joining the Russian Church.
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