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Alvilda

Girls' name

Elf + battle

Alvilda has been given to 123 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1916, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Alvilda, 1927

1 in 290,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alvilda: meaning, origin, and history

Elf + battle

Old Norse

What Alvilda means

Alvilda means “elf + battle”, associated with alfr and hildr.

Origin, language, and formation

Alvilda is used in Danish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Alvilda comes through Old Norse Alfhildr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 123 girls were recorded with the name Alvilda between 1912 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,367 in 1912.

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 Alvilda?

Alvilda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1927
1 in 290,000
8 of 2,319,281 births
Among girls only
1 in 149,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1927
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
200,952 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alvilda 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 1927 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 200,952 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alvilda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alvildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alvilda was born before 1919 — so the typical Alvilda is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
56.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Alvilda 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
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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
0%
Peak was 1916 (12)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,367
1912

Spellings of Alvilda

Alvilda is not the most common spelling — Alvina is, with 40.6% against Alvilda's 0.48%.

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 Alvilda is used

Across 1910–2025, Alvilda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,535,115 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Alvilda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alvilda around the world

Where Alvilda 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
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Alvilda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,367
1912
Peak year
1916
12 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1927
All-time count
123
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alvilda

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

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Sibling names for Alvilda

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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