Her stage name Alejandra Cano was given to her by
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, "Chicho". Her real name is Inmaculada Valhermoso Ruíz-Mateos, but Chicho thought that her mother surname, Ruíz-Mateos, would be detrimental for her career, so he invented that name for her, as he had done with other people who worked for him, like
Lydia Bosch or
Luis Larrodera, whom he named Luis Roderas.