Alvina
Alvina is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 236th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1917293 births
- Best rank
- #236in 1883
- Since 1880
- 10,480people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,480 girls have been named Alvina in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 293 births.
The name has all but left use: 20 births in 2024, against 293 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1910s alone account for 20%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Alvina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 533 | |
| 1890s | 981 | |
| 1900s | 976 | |
| 1910s | 2,075 | |
| 1920s | 1,936 | |
| 1930s | 979 | |
| 1940s | 616 | |
| 1950s | 525 | |
| 1960s | 356 | |
| 1970s | 420 | |
| 1980s | 312 | |
| 1990s | 259 | |
| 2000s | 197 | |
| 2010s | 224 | |
| 2020s | 91 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Alvina was the 368th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Alvina
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Altapeak 1918
- Ethapeak 1920
- Hesterpeak 1918
- Orphapeak 1917
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Ivapeak 1918
- Artiepeak 1916
- Orapeak 1919
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.