Alvena
Alvena was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,063 among girls’ names; 1,606 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alvena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alvena?
#15,063 among girls’ names, 2025
Alvena entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,063 in 2025.
50 babies in 1920, the peak
Alvena peaked in 1920, when 50 girls were given it, #1,048 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,063 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,145 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,553 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,915 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,464 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,500 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 5 | #6,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,892 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,778 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,862 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,149 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,915 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,844 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,327 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,484 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,178 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,705 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,860 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,138 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,291 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,512 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,127 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,739 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,386 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,579 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,835 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,755 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,469 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 50 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 50 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,134 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 47 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 34 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 29 | #1,004 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 20 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1909 | 26 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 23 | #809 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 19 | #848 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 16 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 15 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 13 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 15 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 15 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 18 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 15 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 13 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 19 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 15 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 14 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 10 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 9 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 19 | #601 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,150 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 15 | #664 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 15 | #587 | 0.10 |
| 1886 | 7 | #901 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 11 | #641 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 13 | #538 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 7 | #745 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 5 | #833 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 8 | #630 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alvena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alvena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alvena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alvena, and how old are they?
An estimated 276 Americans named Alvena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 62 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 397 people named Alvena (396 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 360 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,766 babies since 1880, Alvena is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 24 babies (21%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alvena
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 Alvena and names like it
- Compare Alvena and AlvinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAlvena peaked in 1920.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alvena since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Alvena.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alvena alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.