Alvera
Alvera is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 657th, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918113 births
- Best rank
- #657in 1917
- Since 1891
- 2,516people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,516 girls have been named Alvera in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 113 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 113 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 34%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alvera | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 18 | |
| 1900s | 126 | |
| 1910s | 666 | |
| 1920s | 854 | |
| 1930s | 371 | |
| 1940s | 210 | |
| 1950s | 154 | |
| 1960s | 69 | |
| 1970s | 34 | |
| 1980s | 8 | |
| 2000s | 6 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Alvera was the 672nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Alvera
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorathypeak 1921
- Dorothapeak 1921
- Lorenepeak 1920
- Berniecepeak 1918
- Berneicepeak 1918
- Onetapeak 1922
- Antonettapeak 1915
- Elverapeak 1921
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.