Alvester

Last seen for boys in 1990 at #8,117

Peak · boys
1948 · 16 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
490
since 1915

Alvester over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Alvester has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201953peak #1,881, 1948boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1990#8,1175
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1988#7,2705
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1984#5,5616
1983#6,2385
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1977#5,8455
1976#5,5875
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1972#3,6228
1971#2,55814
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1967#2,61110
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1965#3,2447
1964#3,6016
1963#2,8589
1962#4,0335
1961#2,32213
1960#2,68510
1959#2,53011
1958#3,9445
1957#2,09315
1956#2,36112
1955#2,13914
1954#3,1767
1953#2,39111
1952#2,07314
1951#2,24612
1950#3,0217
1949#2,8028
1948#1,88116
1947#1,98815
1946#3,5255
1945#2,3939
1944#2,19511
1943#2,7328
1942#2,5239
1941#2,20711
1940#1,98313
1939#3,4805
1938#2,32610
1937#2,6808
1936#2,6298
1935#2,9517
1934#2,5639
1933#2,7388
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1931#2,47110
1930#3,2897
1929#2,45211
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1927#3,4517
1926#2,43612
1925#3,4087
1924#3,5057
1923#4,2395
1922#3,5327
1921#3,8696
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1919#2,66510
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1917#3,9815
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Alvester! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Alvester is popular in 1953

No state had 5 or more boys named Alvester in 1953, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Alvester
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1990
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1948 at #1,881 (16 births)
  • Births halved by 1949, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 89,167
  • Highest: 1 in 89,167 boys born in 1940 were named Alvester (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 410,808 boys born in 1990 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,881 in 1948, was only 1 in 109,664 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 22.0% of all boys named Alvester (108) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s30#2,665 (1919)#3,293
1920s62#2,436 (1926)#3,362
1930s72#2,326 (1938)#2,792
1940s105#1,881 (1948)#2,423
1950s108#2,073 (1952)#2,597
1960s60#2,322 (1961)#3,051
1970s32#2,558 (1971)#4,403
1980s16#5,561 (1984)#6,356
1990s5#8,117 (1990)#8,117

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.

Alvester in 1953

boys
#2,391
11 births · 1 in 179,300 boys

Top boys' names in 1953

  1. #1Robert86,243
  2. #2James86,066
  3. #3Michael84,198
  4. #4John80,165
  5. #5David76,119
  6. #6William61,829
  7. #7Richard58,389
  8. #8Thomas47,008
  9. #9Charles38,421
  10. #10Gary36,967
  11. #2,391Alvester11
More about 1953

boys

1,972,299 boys got a published name in 1953; 1 in 179,300 of them was named Alvester, which outranked 44.9% of the 4,341 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alvester
  1. #2,287Vladimir12
  2. #2,287Yale12
  3. #2,287Young12
  4. #2,391Alvester11
  5. #2,391Adrien11
  6. #2,391Alpha11
  7. #2,391Alwin11
  8. #2,531Abbie10
  9. #2,531Abran10
  10. #2,531Adriel10

Tied with 139 names at #2,391; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1952
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,276Faron#2,251 → #975
  2. ↑ 694Shane#1,213 → #519
  3. ↑ 528Enrico#1,517 → #989
  4. ↑ 441Blaise#1,430 → #989
  5. ↑ 429Robbin#1,268 → #839
Fallers
  1. ↓ 427Durwood#981 → #1,408
  2. ↓ 392Jonnie#939 → #1,331
  3. ↓ 312Elvis#968 → #1,280
  4. ↓ 293Edsel#968 → #1,261
  5. ↓ 292Beverly#766 → #1,058

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1953 →