Alverda
Alverda was last recorded in 1950, when 5 babies were given it; 891 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alverda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alverda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,314, in 1950; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1922, the peak
Alverda peaked in 1922, when 37 girls were given it, #1,285 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | #5,314 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,623 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,255 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,319 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,431 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,589 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,448 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,129 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,570 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,514 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 6 | #3,784 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,945 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,947 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,525 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,736 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,745 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,164 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,133 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,309 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,816 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,556 | 22.4 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,899 | 17.3 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,936 | 16.8 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,000 | 16.0 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,578 | 23.0 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,568 | 23.2 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,430 | 26.5 |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,285 | 30.8 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,375 | 27.6 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,511 | 24.2 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,483 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,360 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,431 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,279 | 30.6 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,572 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,386 | 27.6 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,274 | 32.0 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,252 | 32.3 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,114 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,777 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,772 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,137 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #990 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,734 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,164 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 14 | #966 | 50.8 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,443 | 26.7 |
| 1902 | 14 | #938 | 53.0 |
| 1901 | 16 | #830 | 66.8 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,108 | 40.0 |
| 1899 | 11 | #984 | 47.2 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,099 | 38.6 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,591 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,306 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 10 | #999 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,179 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 10 | #960 | 47.1 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,102 | 36.8 |
| 1889 | 9 | #904 | 50.5 |
| 1887 | 7 | #940 | 48.0 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,030 | 38.8 |
| 1883 | 5 | #924 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alverda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alverda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alverda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alverda, and how old are they?
An estimated 67 Americans named Alverda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 141 people named Alverda (138 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 122 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 Alverda born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 247 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Alverda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alverda is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1910 it was given 4.2 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 Alverda 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 Alverda
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 Alverda and names like it
- Compare Alverda and BulahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAlverda peaked in 1922.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alverda since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Alverda.
- Names starting with AMost given first.