Alvy

Where Alvy comes from

Alvy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #845
    6 babies named Alvy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1921
    Alvy Moore born
    American actor and comedian
  5. 1943
    Alvy Ray Smith born
    American filmmaker and cartoonist co-founder of Pixar
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alvy Ray Smith · American filmmaker and cartoonist co-founder of Pixar, born 1943
  • Alvy Moore · American actor and comedian, 1921–1997

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.