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Alven

Boys' name

Elf + friend, through Alvin

Alven has been given to 462 babies in the U.S. since 1905. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Alven, 2012

1 in 732,000

Alven over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alven: meaning, origin, and history

Elf + friend, through Alvin

Old English

What Alven means

Alven belongs to the name family reached through Alven → Alvin. Its meaning is “elf + friend”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alven is used in English. Its origins include Old English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alvin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 462 boys were recorded with the name Alven between 1905 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,237 in 1905.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alven?

Alven had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alven sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alven. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alvens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alven was born before 1931 — so the typical Alven is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
81
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1920s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Alven rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (20)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,237
1905

Spellings of Alven

Alven is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 15.6% against Alven's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alven is used

Across 1910–2025, Alven was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 582,847 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in —
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alven has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alven around the world

Where Alven ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1998–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alven by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,237
1905
Peak year
1922
20 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
462
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alven

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AlveyAivenAlviaNevenMavenZavenRivenCavenJovenLevenKavenHeavenJaivenAyvenShivenAlvanKovenAlvieEvenCravenAlvonZevenTayvenAlvis

Sibling names for Alven

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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