Alvie
Alvie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 420th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1921106 births
- Best rank
- #420in 1894
- Since 1880
- 4,712people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,089 boys have been named Alvie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 106 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 106 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 623 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alvie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 88 | |
| 1890s | 101 | |
| 1900s | 155 | |
| 1910s | 558 | |
| 1920s | 924 | |
| 1930s | 678 | |
| 1940s | 564 | |
| 1950s | 367 | |
| 1960s | 253 | |
| 1970s | 159 | |
| 1980s | 89 | |
| 1990s | 43 | |
| 2000s | 24 | |
| 2010s | 41 | |
| 2020s | 45 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Alvie was the 616th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Alvie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Clydepeak 1920
- Floydpeak 1926
- Burrellpeak 1919
- Dillardpeak 1921
- Herbertpeak 1928
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Earlpeak 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.