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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Alva

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#10,762

down −1,733 places

2025 births

6

down −2 births

All-time births

11,269

0% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1917
317 births
Best rank
#162
in 1882
First recorded
1880
#180 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1929
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
141 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1917317#294Peak
  2. 1921289#351
  3. 1920278#353
  4. 1923274#359
  5. 1918273#346

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #162 in 1882 · peak births 317 in 1917

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 56% boys■ 44% girls

11,269 boys · 8,889 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Alva has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.