girls:
8.8k births since 1880
#1730 (70th percentile)
boys:
11.3k births since 1880
#1089 (76th percentile)
overall:
20.1k births since 1880
#1808 (77th percentile)
The name Alva is the #1,808 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,091 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,089 (76.3% percentile) for all time with 11,255 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,730 (69.7% percentile) for all time with 8,836 births since 1880.
Alva has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Alva has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (56.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 29.4% of babies named Alva were boys.
For boys, Alva reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 47.9% percentile (ranked #270) with 330 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 697 births per million (ranked 37.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alva ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alva reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 30.6% percentile (ranked #410) with 163 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 302 births per million (ranked 20.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alva ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 4.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alva".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.1% confident that Alva is pronounced as AL-vuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-vuh, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 L V AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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