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NAMES LIKE ALVA
Same rise and fall as Alva, around the same years.
WHERE ALVA IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Alva ranked highest in California (#5,341) and lowest in Texas (#5,607). 49 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Alva name popularity
Alva has been given to 20,158 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1917, when 478 babies got the name, and its best rank was #301 in 1882.
In 2025, 28 babies were named Alva (#8,252 in the country), 94% below the peak. That is up 12% from 2015.
About 44% of babies named Alva were girls and 56% were boys.
An estimated 5.9K people named Alva are alive in the US today, with a median age of 68.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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