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Alva

Pronounced /ˈæl.və/

Rank in 2024
#9,819
Born in 2024
8
Peak year
1917 · #295
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:31 in 2024 (#4,536)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 8 boys were named Alva, about 1 in every 214,414.
  • It peaked in 1917 with 317 babies, ranked #295.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 11,263 boys have been named Alva since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Alva per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 4,583 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Silent: 2,874 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,461 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 524 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 207 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 87 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 102 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A male given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈæl.və/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Alva, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Alvie

    Rank
    #12,214
    Born '24
    6
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19212024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Alvah

    Rank
    #14,141
    Born '24
    5
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19162024