girls:
326 births since 1911
#5390 (6th percentile)
boys:
5.2k births since 1881
#1663 (64th percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1881
#3672 (53rd percentile)
The name Alvis is the #3,672 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,505 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 52.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,663 (63.7% percentile) for all time with 5,179 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,390 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 326 births since 1911.
Alvis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1911 for girls). Birth data for Alvis is available in 135 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (135 years for boys and 43 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 Alvis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Alvis reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 18.3% percentile (ranked #411) with 110 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 117 births per million (ranked 12.3% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Alvis ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 6.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alvis reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #564) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 23 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1971.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alvis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alvis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.4% confident that Alvis is pronounced as AL-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-vihs, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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