girls:
1.1k births since 1908
#4618 (19th percentile)
boys:
160.8k births since 1880
#212 (95th percentile)
overall:
161.9k births since 1880
#465 (94th percentile)
The name Alvin is the #465 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 161,868 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #212 (95.4% percentile) for all time with 160,770 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,618 (19.2% percentile) for all time with 1,098 births since 1908.
Alvin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1908 for girls).
The name Alvin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alvin reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 87.9% percentile (ranked #66) with 2,481 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 2,481 births per million (ranked 87.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Alvin ranks #597 for boys (34.5% percentile) with 183 births per million, which is 7.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alvin reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #567) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 26 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alvin".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Alvin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Alvin is pronounced as AL-vihn, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 L V IH0 N) 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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