Alvira
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #16,215
- Peak · girls
- 1885 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 927since 1885
Alvira over time
Rank among girls' names. Alvira has never cracked the top 900 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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| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 |
| 1940 | #2,963 | 9 |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | #1,845 | 18 |
| 1934 | #2,289 | 13 |
| 1933 | #1,773 | 19 |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 |
| 1931 | #2,105 | 15 |
| 1930 | #2,023 | 17 |
| 1929 | #1,953 | 18 |
| 1928 | #1,738 | 23 |
| 1927 | #1,828 | 22 |
| 1926 | #1,721 | 24 |
| 1925 | #1,376 | 34 |
| 1924 | #1,440 | 33 |
| 1923 | #1,464 | 31 |
| 1922 | #1,207 | 41 |
| 1921 | #1,276 | 37 |
| 1920 | #1,152 | 43 |
| 1919 | #1,155 | 41 |
| 1918 | #1,184 | 40 |
| 1917 | #1,261 | 33 |
| 1916 | #1,357 | 29 |
| 1915 | #1,405 | 26 |
| 1914 | #1,303 | 23 |
| 1913 | #1,229 | 21 |
| 1912 | #1,117 | 22 |
| 1911 | #982 | 20 |
| 1910 | #1,069 | 17 |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 |
| 1908 | #1,676 | 7 |
| 1907 | #1,639 | 7 |
| 1906 | #1,727 | 6 |
| 1905 | #926 | 16 |
| 1904 | #1,486 | 7 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,320 | 8 |
| 1901 | #1,466 | 6 |
| 1900 | #970 | 15 |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 |
| 1898 | — | |
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| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 |
| 1894 | #1,237 | 7 |
| 1893 | — | |
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| 1885 | #921 | 6 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Alvira! It came in at #921, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1886–1893, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alvira is popular in 1914
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#578 · 1 in 14,664
Best ever in a state: #343 in Minnesota, 1922.
Show every state
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| New York | #578 | 5 | 1 in 14,664 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alvira
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2016
- Biggest jump: 560 spots in 1905 (#1,486 → #926)
- Biggest drop: 801 spots in 1906 (#926 → #1,727)
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1885 at #921 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · 1885–1911
- Highest: 1 in 18,226 girls born in 1905 were named Alvira (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 354,404 girls born in 2016 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #921 in 1885, was only 1 in 22,176 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.0% of all girls named Alvira (306) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #921 (1885) | #921 |
| 1890s | 18 | #1,237 (1894) | #1,408 |
| 1900s | 79 | #926 (1905) | #1,441 |
| 1910s | 272 | #982 (1911) | #1,206 |
| 1920s | 306 | #1,152 (1920) | #1,516 |
| 1930s | 130 | #1,773 (1933) | #2,562 |
| 1940s | 59 | #2,963 (1940) | #3,801 |
| 1950s | 36 | #3,930 (1957) | #5,318 |
| 1960s | 11 | #5,860 (1962) | #6,214 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #10,392 (1980) | #10,392 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 5 | #16,215 (2016) | #16,215 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alvira in 1914
Top girls' names in 1914
More about 1914
girls
761,581 girls got a published name in 1914; 1 in 33,112 of them was named Alvira, which outranked 69.0% of the 4,206 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,262Verle24
- #1,262Versa24
- #1,262Verta24
- #1,303Alvira23
- #1,303Arabella23
- #1,303Becky23
- #1,303Buena23
- #1,344Aldona22
- #1,344Alison22
- #1,344Alyne22
Tied with 40 names at #1,303; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.