girls:
21 births since 1913
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
55 births since 1915
#4531 (1st percentile)
overall:
76 births since 1913
#7663 (1st percentile)
The name Alvern is the #7,663 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 76 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,531 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1913.
Alvern first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Alvern is available in 13 out of the 31 years between 1913 and 1943 (9 years for boys and 4 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 Alvern has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.4% of all recorded births being male. In 1943, 0.0% of babies named Alvern were boys. Interestingly, until around 1915, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1913 to 1914), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (77.5% boys from 1915 to 1943).
For boys, Alvern reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #525) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1935.
For girls, Alvern reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #583) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1943.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alvern".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alvern. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.3% confident that Alvern is pronounced as AL-vern, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-vern, at 9.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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