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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Alvah

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,808

peak year 1916

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1916
55 births
Best rank
#364
in 1885
First recorded
1880
#404 that year
Last recorded
2024
no later published record
Average birth year
1929
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
102 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191655#841Peak
  2. 191545#926
  3. 192045#1,036
  4. 191444#795
  5. 192544#1,041

Rank over time

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

Best rank #364 in 1885 · peak births 55 in 1916

Boys and girls

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

● 96% boys■ 4% girls

1,808 boys · 72 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 Alvah has ranked, decade by decade

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