girls:
5 births since 2002
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
16.7k births since 1914
#892 (81st percentile)
overall:
16.7k births since 1914
#1999 (74th percentile)
The name Alvaro is the #1,999 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,701 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 74.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #892 (80.6% percentile) for all time with 16,696 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2002.
Alvaro first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 2002 for girls).
The name Alvaro has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alvaro reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 43.3% percentile (ranked #462) with 211 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 211 births per million (ranked 43.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alvaro is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #573 (37.1% percentile) with 202 births per million.
For girls, Alvaro reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #894) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alvaro".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Alvaro. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.6% confident that Alvaro is pronounced as AHL-vah-roh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uhl-VAH-roh, at 14.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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