Alvenia
Alvenia was last recorded in 1972, when 5 babies were given it; 420 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alvenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alvenia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,313, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1956, the peak
Alvenia peaked in 1956, when 15 girls were given it, #3,052 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | #8,313 | 3.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,836 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,018 | 3.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,867 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,249 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,713 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,264 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,900 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,488 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,052 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 10 | #3,780 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,763 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,962 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,574 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,286 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,427 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,003 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,595 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,245 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,572 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,950 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,209 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,669 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,669 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,513 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,744 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,343 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,445 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,863 | 8.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,818 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,761 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,834 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,854 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,141 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,172 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,565 | 6.7 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,810 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,732 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,668 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,678 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,609 | 6.7 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,681 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,358 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,664 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,297 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,199 | 7.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,962 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,776 | 20.2 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,961 | 16.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alvenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alvenia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alvenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alvenia, and how old are they?
An estimated 170 Americans named Alvenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 68 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 206 people named Alvenia (203 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 12,644 babies since 1880, Alvenia is the third most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Alvenia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Alvenia
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 Alvenia and names like it
- Compare Alvenia and AlvinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sAlvenia peaked in 1956.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Alvenia.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alvenia alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.