girls:
72 births since 1900
#5644 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1880
#2937 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1880
#5885 (24th percentile)
The name Alvah is the #5,885 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,875 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 23.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,937 (35.9% percentile) for all time with 1,803 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,644 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 72 births since 1900.
Alvah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1900 for girls). Birth data for Alvah is available in 101 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (101 years for boys and 11 years for girls). 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 Alvah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alvah reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 10.0% percentile (ranked #452) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 198 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alvah ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alvah reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #601) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 19 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1941.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alvah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Alvah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 2 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Alva" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Alva..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alvah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.5% confident that Alvah is pronounced as AL-vuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-vuh, at 27.5% 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.
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