Alvar
Last seen for boys in 2015 at #10,644
- Peak · boys
- 1914 · 12 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 92since 1914
Alvar over time
Rank among boys' names. Alvar has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2015 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #12,108 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #3,741 | 6 |
| 1924 | #4,347 | 5 |
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| 1921 | #2,986 | 9 |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #3,115 | 8 |
| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #1,986 | 15 |
| 1916 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,392 | 6 |
| 1914 | #1,868 | 12 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alvar! It came in at #1,868, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1924, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alvar is popular in 1914
No state had 5 or more boys named Alvar in 1914, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alvar
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2015
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1914 at #1,868 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1915, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 54,564 boys born in 1914 were named Alvar (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 319,457 boys born in 2015 (0.00%)
- 59.8% of all boys named Alvar (55) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 55 | #1,868 (1914) | #2,818 |
| 1920s | 26 | #2,986 (1921) | #3,722 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 11 | #10,644 (2015) | #11,376 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alvar in 1914
Top boys' names in 1914
More about 1914
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654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 54,564 of them was named Alvar, which outranked 50.3% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,772Wendall13
- #1,772Wheeler13
- #1,772Zeke13
- #1,868Alvar12
- #1,868Alberta12
- #1,868Alston12
- #1,868Amado12
- #1,975Adrain11
- #1,975Ammon11
- #1,975Armour11
Tied with 106 names at #1,868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.