Alvaro
Alvaro was given to 328 boys in 2025, #777 among boys’ names; 17,362 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,900 Americans named Alvaro and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alvaro by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alvaro mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Alvaro is “a male given name from Spanish”
Borrowed from Spanish Álvaro.
/ˈʔalvaɾo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alvaro?
#777 among boys’ names, 2025
Alvaro rose from #908 in 2015 to #777 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.19 per 1,000.
441 babies in 2000, the peak
Alvaro peaked in 2000, when 441 boys were given it, #513 among boys’ names. The 328 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 328 | #777 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 328 | #770 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 371 | #716 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 318 | #793 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 285 | #834 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 267 | #853 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 274 | #824 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 258 | #855 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 255 | #854 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 287 | #803 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 237 | #908 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 230 | #926 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 251 | #849 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 231 | #898 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 265 | #821 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 287 | #774 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 296 | #771 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 380 | #644 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 408 | #612 | 0.20 |
| 2006 | 432 | #576 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 395 | #580 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 374 | #590 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 410 | #548 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 378 | #577 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 396 | #544 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 441 | #513 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 378 | #539 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 343 | #569 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 337 | #562 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 316 | #575 | 0.17 |
| 1995 | 343 | #547 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 337 | #559 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 329 | #562 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 313 | #573 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 350 | #542 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 309 | #575 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 336 | #520 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 241 | #606 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 256 | #565 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 277 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 354 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 173 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 199 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 200 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 205 | #599 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 181 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 155 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 152 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 130 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 117 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 138 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 119 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 112 | #756 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 96 | #815 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 108 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 75 | #921 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 87 | #827 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 63 | #910 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 68 | #867 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 66 | #889 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 63 | #929 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 59 | #982 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 64 | #935 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 70 | #906 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,120 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 69 | #910 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,156 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 57 | #1,006 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 60 | #980 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,217 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,065 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 65 | #917 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 52 | #998 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 49 | #1,027 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,194 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 45 | #1,051 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 49 | #996 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,233 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,253 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,124 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,445 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,737 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,530 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,731 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,446 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,491 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,822 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,579 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,033 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,213 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,361 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,427 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,171 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,612 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 40 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,408 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,469 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,451 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,472 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,768 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,267 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,189 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,838 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,659 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alvaro a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alvaro has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 112 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alvaro: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alvaro, and how old are they?
15,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 17,362 Americans ever recorded as Alvaro. The median Alvaro alive today is 26 years old; half are between 15 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 34,180 people named Alvaro (76 women and girls, 34,104 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 69 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 652 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,540 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,660 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alvaro born?
The states with the most babies named Alvaro are Texas, California and Florida, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 90 | #394 | 2.5× |
| California | 72 | #443 | 2.8× |
| Florida | 22 | #704 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 13 | #527 | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 12 | #713 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #719 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 11 | #501 | 0.8× |
| New York | 9 | #1,207 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #778 | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,094 | 0.3× |
Where Alvaro is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alvaro is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alvaro with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alvaro
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alvaro and names like it
- Compare Alvaro and EverardoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlvaro peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alvaro since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Alvaro: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Alvaro.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alvaro alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.