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How popular is “Alva” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alva” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alva” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Alva” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alva” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alva” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Alva” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alva” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 87 0.000431796 17 70 -61%
1881 83 0.000430748 13 70 -69%
1882 98 0.000442372 13 85 -73%
1883 78 0.000359536 6 72 -85%
1884 71 0.000291628 9 62 -75%
1885 63 0.000261569 17 46 -46%
1886 85 0.000332921 21 64 -51%
1887 90 0.000363795 32 58 -29%
1888 106 0.000353954 32 74 -40%
1889 84 0.000290712 22 62 -48%
1890 103 0.000341737 35 68 -32%
1891 92 0.000320923 26 66 -43%
1892 114 0.000340936 40 74 -30%
1893 107 0.000329005 41 66 -23%
1894 126 0.000372022 50 76 -21%
1895 135 0.000384593 61 74 -10%
1896 144 0.000402815 76 68 6%
1897 120 0.000345864 51 69 -15%
1898 123 0.00032245 56 67 -9%
1899 100 0.000294782 39 61 -22%
1900 140 0.000310933 67 73 -4%
1901 108 0.000312308 49 59 -9%
1902 114 0.000294777 54 60 -5%
1903 108 0.000283316 58 50 7%
1904 98 0.000242884 49 49 0%
1905 115 0.000271276 58 57 1%
1906 129 0.000301085 65 64 1%
1907 133 0.000285782 74 59 11%
1908 96 0.00019646 60 36 25%
1909 138 0.00026994 70 68 1%
1910 141 0.000238695 80 61 13%
1911 141 0.00021885 83 58 18%
1912 263 0.000266178 125 138 -5%
1913 309 0.000271742 142 167 -8%
1914 299 0.000211107 121 178 -19%
1915 408 0.000222656 146 262 -28%
1916 436 0.000225391 176 260 -19%
1917 478 0.000238196 161 317 -33%
1918 469 0.000216018 196 273 -16%
1919 438 0.000207559 174 264 -21%
1920 451 0.000199324 173 278 -23%
1921 454 0.000194474 165 289 -27%
1922 420 0.000183474 174 246 -17%
1923 423 0.000183715 149 274 -30%
1924 440 0.000184749 167 273 -24%
1925 393 0.000168431 154 239 -22%
1926 415 0.000180757 156 259 -25%
1927 409 0.000176342 164 245 -20%
1928 370 0.000163649 163 207 -12%
1929 367 0.000167415 126 241 -31%
1930 328 0.000147529 120 208 -27%
1931 348 0.000165369 135 213 -22%
1932 312 0.000147777 137 175 -12%
1933 273 0.000136538 117 156 -14%
1934 274 0.000131933 119 155 -13%
1935 262 0.000125365 116 146 -11%
1936 283 0.000136216 106 177 -25%
1937 273 0.000128129 118 155 -14%
1938 256 0.000115702 100 156 -22%
1939 257 0.000116636 117 140 -9%
1940 235 0.000102055 98 137 -17%
1941 195 0.000080035 93 102 -5%
1942 222 0.000081265 91 131 -18%
1943 245 0.000086801 97 148 -21%
1944 195 0.000072489 83 112 -15%
1945 182 0.000068604 67 115 -26%
1946 193 0.000060401 79 114 -18%
1947 226 0.000062737 95 131 -16%
1948 203 0.000058798 88 115 -13%
1949 195 0.000055958 84 111 -14%
1950 177 0.000050523 80 97 -10%
1951 157 0.00004262 91 66 16%
1952 178 0.000046867 81 97 -9%
1953 132 0.000034253 67 65 2%
1954 157 0.00003944 89 68 13%
1955 180 0.000044831 98 82 9%
1956 144 0.000034926 85 59 18%
1957 139 0.000033078 81 58 17%
1958 130 0.000031447 73 57 12%
1959 120 0.00002886 52 68 -13%
1960 119 0.000028648 59 60 -1%
1961 119 0.000028728 54 65 -9%
1962 127 0.000031472 75 52 18%
1963 97 0.000024506 52 45 7%
1964 107 0.000027523 56 51 5%
1965 97 0.000026755 53 44 9%
1966 83 0.00002388 44 39 6%
1967 75 0.000022092 39 36 4%
1968 84 0.000024864 49 35 17%
1969 90 0.000025897 38 52 -16%
1970 83 0.000023014 48 35 16%
1971 81 0.000023599 45 36 11%
1972 58 0.000018454 29 29 0%
1973 68 0.00002254 30 38 -12%
1974 54 0.000017763 27 27 0%
1975 57 0.000018878 31 26 9%
1976 53 0.000017467 29 24 9%
1977 54 0.000017 27 27 0%
1978 59 0.000018589 28 31 -5%
1979 41 0.000012323 22 19 7%
1980 62 0.000018 36 26 16%
1981 49 0.000014164 33 16 35%
1982 48 0.000013683 26 22 8%
1983 44 0.000012705 28 16 27%
1984 28 0.000008026 16 12 14%
1985 48 0.000013449 35 13 46%
1986 34 0.000009558 19 15 12%
1987 23 0.000006379 14 9 22%
1988 44 0.000011908 31 13 41%
1989 57 0.000014827 41 16 44%
1990 38 0.000009614 26 12 37%
1991 24 0.000006161 17 7 42%
1992 35 0.000009112 22 13 26%
1993 34 0.000009018 23 11 35%
1994 20 0.00000538 12 8 20%
1995 27 0.000007373 12 15 -11%
1996 26 0.000007129 17 9 31%
1997 16 0.000004413 6 10 -25%
1998 22 0.000005981 14 8 27%
1999 19 0.000005144 8 11 -16%
2000 29 0.000007672 18 11 24%
2001 14 0.00000374 8 6 14%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 100%
2003 22 0.000005786 17 5 55%
2004 26 0.000006805 17 9 31%
2005 18 0.000004682 13 5 44%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2007 24 0.000006003 14 10 17%
2008 21 0.000005343 15 6 43%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 23 0.000006223 17 6 48%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 100%
2013 22 0.000006035 14 8 27%
2014 18 0.000004856 12 6 33%
2015 25 0.000006755 19 6 52%
2016 38 0.000010358 27 11 42%
2017 34 0.000009507 21 13 24%
2018 38 0.000010808 28 10 47%
2019 37 0.00001066 32 5 73%
2020 51 0.000015267 41 10 61%
2021 34 0.000010036 29 5 71%
2022 39 0.000011528 29 10 49%
2023 34 0.000010268 24 10 41%
2024 39 0.000011717 31 8 59%

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