Alvera — girls' name

What the Data Says About Alvera

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,516 babies named Alvera between 1891 and 2008, spanning 118 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alvera currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 113 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alvera performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 854 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Alvera shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 186 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Alvera in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alvera in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,516 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.