Alvy
Alvy was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 301 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alvy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alvy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,232, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1915, the peak
Alvy peaked in 1915, when 15 boys were given it, #1,880 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #12,232 | 2.9 |
| 1958 | 5 | #3,964 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #3,954 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 8 | #2,971 | 3.9 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,098 | 3.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,702 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,098 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,238 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,386 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,145 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 6 | #3,145 | 5.2 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,961 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #2,979 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,012 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,319 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,399 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,181 | 11.8 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,567 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,158 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,439 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,754 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,026 | 7.9 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,023 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,808 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,136 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,269 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,381 | 6.9 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,549 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,880 | 17.7 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,779 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,506 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,278 | 14.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,449 | 30.5 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,107 | 41.8 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,070 | 41.0 |
| 1886 | 6 | #849 | 54.2 |
| 1884 | 5 | #978 | 43.7 |
| 1882 | 5 | #948 | 44.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alvy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alvy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alvy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alvy, and how old are they?
An estimated 41 Americans named Alvy 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 180 people named Alvy (35 women and girls, 145 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times 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).
How common is the spelling Alvy?
Alvy is a less common spelling of Alvie: SSA has recorded 301 Alvy and 4,725 Alvie since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 28,201 babies since 1880, Alvy is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 50 babies recorded by SSA was a Alvy (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 Alvy
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 Alvy and names like it
- Compare Alvy and AlvieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAlvy peaked in 1915.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Alvy.
- Names starting with AMost given first.