Alvina

Where Alvina comes from

A feminine form of Alvin.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alvina
  • Germanic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #294 among girls — 28 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #236
    57 babies named Alvina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    Alvina Krause born
    American theatre director
  4. 1956
    Alvina Gyulumyan born
    Armenian lawyer, judge
  5. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,605.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Alvina Gyulumyan · Armenian lawyer, judge, born 1956
  • Alvina Reynolds · Saint Lucian politician
  • Alvina Krause · American theatre director, 1893–1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.