girls:
33.4k births since 1952
#761 (87th percentile)
boys:
15 births since 2004
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
33.4k births since 1952
#1381 (82nd percentile)
The name Alivia is the #1,381 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,367 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 82.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #761 (86.7% percentile) for all time with 33,352 births since 1952. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 2004.
Alivia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Alivia is available in 53 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023 (53 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alivia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alivia reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 81.9% percentile (ranked #174) with 903 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 905 births per million (ranked 81.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alivia ranks #347 for girls (63.4% percentile) with 470 births per million, which is 51.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alivia reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #917) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alivia".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alivia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.6% confident that Alivia is pronounced as uh-LIH-vee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LIH-vyuh, at 25.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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