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Alvena

#15,063 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Alvin

Alvena has been given to 1,606 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #15,063 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Alvena, 2025

1 in 663,000

Alvena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alvena: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Alvin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alvena means

Alvena is a feminine form of Alvin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Alvena is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alvena → Alvin. The family’s meaning is “elf + friend”, recorded in English with the source elements ælf and wine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alvin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,606 girls were recorded with the name Alvena between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1920; its best national rank was #538 in 1883.

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 Alvena?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,063
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alvena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alvena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alvenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alvena was born before 1921 — so the typical Alvena is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.31%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
188
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1920s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (374).

Is Alvena 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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Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 1920 (50)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#538
1883

Spellings of Alvena

Alvena is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 16.8% against Alvena's 0.18%.

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 Alvena is used

Across 1910–2025, Alvena was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 424,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Missouri1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Nebraska1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Alvena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alvena around the world

Where Alvena 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
    1958–1975
    #675
    in 1975

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

Alvena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,063
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#538
1883
Peak year
1920
50 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,606
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Alvena

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

AlveenaYelenaJelenaAmeenaVerenaMarenaMelenaAllenaLavenaDelenaJolenaJalenaDalenaAlvieSarenaAlveraEllenaKalenaAlviraArlenaAlvinaSirenaMeenaRaena

Sibling names for Alvena

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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