Alvie
#12,104 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alvie has been given to 4,725 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,104 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 106 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.
Babies named Alvie, 2025
1 in 663,000
Alvie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Alvie over time
In 2025, Alvie went to 62% girls and 38% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Alvie?
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 boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,104
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alvie sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alvie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alvies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alvie was born before 1932 — so the typical Alvie is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,026
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (924).
Is Alvie 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
- −1,086
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,584
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,485
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 4.7%
- Peak was 1921 (106)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.2% average annual change
Spellings of Alvie
Alvie is not the most common spelling — Calvin is, with 36.6% against Alvie's 0.68%.
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 Alvie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Alvie was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 57,447 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Oklahoma1 in 10,000
- 2Arkansas1 in 11,111
- 3Alabama1 in 16,667
- 4Kentucky1 in 33,333
- 5Missouri1 in 33,333
- 6Mississippi1 in 33,333
- 7Texas1 in 33,333
- 8West Virginia1 in 33,333
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. Alvie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Alvie is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Alvie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 673,196 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Alvie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Alvie around the world
Where Alvie 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.
- England & Wales2012–2025#1,276in 2025
- Scotland2021–2025#762in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Alvie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Alvie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Alvie
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alvie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Alvie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.