Alvah
Alvah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 364th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191655 births
- Best rank
- #364in 1885
- Since 1880
- 1,880people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,808 boys have been named Alvah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 55 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 55 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 72 girls have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alvah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 132 | |
| 1890s | 109 | |
| 1900s | 64 | |
| 1910s | 326 | |
| 1920s | 369 | |
| 1930s | 266 | |
| 1940s | 191 | |
| 1950s | 184 | |
| 1960s | 54 | |
| 1970s | 61 | |
| 1980s | 29 | |
| 2010s | 11 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Alvah was the 841st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Alvah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ernstpeak 1917
- Clempeak 1917
- Elzapeak 1922
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Gustavpeak 1917
- Webbpeak 1927
- Nelspeak 1918
- Columbuspeak 1922
Other spellings in the data
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.