Alvena
Alvena is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 538th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192050 births
- Best rank
- #538in 1883
- Since 1880
- 1,601people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,601 girls have been named Alvena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 50 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 50 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alvena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 87 | |
| 1890s | 147 | |
| 1900s | 163 | |
| 1910s | 338 | |
| 1920s | 374 | |
| 1930s | 175 | |
| 1940s | 134 | |
| 1950s | 90 | |
| 1960s | 58 | |
| 1970s | 20 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Alvena was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Alvena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Althapeak 1917
- Elmirapeak 1921
- Henriettapeak 1918
- Clemmiepeak 1916
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Annerpeak 1920
- Orapeak 1919
- Alvinapeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.