Alvera
Alvera was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 2,515 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alvera by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alvera?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,507, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
113 babies in 1918, the peak
Alvera peaked in 1918, when 113 girls were given it, #672 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #15,507 | 3.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,438 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,046 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,795 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,587 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,404 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,829 | 4.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,266 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,465 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,296 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 9 | #4,639 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,306 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,542 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,609 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,191 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,043 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,752 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,150 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,827 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,635 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,889 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,818 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,503 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,119 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,438 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,966 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,416 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,202 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,029 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,875 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,027 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,702 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,049 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,610 | 19.9 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,638 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,546 | 21.9 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,596 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,219 | 32.9 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,377 | 26.9 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,265 | 30.5 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,167 | 35.4 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,159 | 36.7 |
| 1932 | 42 | #1,097 | 39.4 |
| 1931 | 48 | #1,010 | 45.1 |
| 1930 | 65 | #895 | 57.7 |
| 1929 | 69 | #855 | 61.8 |
| 1928 | 74 | #840 | 64.2 |
| 1927 | 67 | #911 | 56.2 |
| 1926 | 85 | #783 | 71.7 |
| 1925 | 91 | #773 | 74.8 |
| 1924 | 83 | #817 | 66.5 |
| 1923 | 92 | #758 | 76.3 |
| 1922 | 104 | #711 | 86.6 |
| 1921 | 84 | #797 | 68.1 |
| 1920 | 105 | #706 | 87.6 |
| 1919 | 90 | #739 | 79.6 |
| 1918 | 113 | #672 | 97.6 |
| 1917 | 107 | #657 | 99.0 |
| 1916 | 88 | #727 | 84.3 |
| 1915 | 89 | #705 | 90.5 |
| 1914 | 50 | #828 | 65.7 |
| 1913 | 49 | #748 | 78.5 |
| 1912 | 33 | #868 | 59.1 |
| 1911 | 20 | #983 | 47.8 |
| 1910 | 27 | #831 | 68.1 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,292 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,045 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 25 | #750 | 78.5 |
| 1906 | 17 | #897 | 57.6 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,241 | 34.3 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,092 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 13 | #972 | 49.6 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,447 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 17 | #797 | 71.0 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,184 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,709 | 19.3 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,342 | 27.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alvera a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alvera has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alvera: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alvera, and how old are they?
An estimated 429 Americans named Alvera and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 67 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 707 people named Alvera (698 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 617 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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).
Where are babies named Alvera born?
The states with the most babies named Alvera are Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 186 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 159 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 105 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 97 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 92 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 86 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 52 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Alvera is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alvera is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 girls’ 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 Alvera with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,548 babies since 1880, Alvera is the most given (71% of them).
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 Alvera
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 Alvera and names like it
- Compare Alvera and AlviraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAlvera peaked in 1918.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alvera since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Alvera.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alvera alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.