Alvis — #6455 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Alvis

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,192 babies named Alvis between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alvis currently holds the #6455 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 101 babies received it in a single year. Alvis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 326 additional births since 1911.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alvis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 916 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Alvis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 906 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Alvis in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alvis 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 5,192 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.