Gender-neutral · #5554 in 2025
Alva
Alva: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #5554
- Born 2025
- 22
- Peak year
- 1896
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 girls born
Recent trend
Alva has held steady: its share of girls born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 4% of its 1896 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 76% of children named Alva were recorded as girls and 24% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.