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Alvina

#6,128 in 2025Girls' name

Elf + friend, through Alvin

Alvina has been given to 10,507 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,128 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 293 recorded.

Babies named Alvina, 2025

1 in 174,000

Alvina over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alvina: meaning, origin, and history

Elf + friend, through Alvin

Germanic languages

What Alvina means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Alvina is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alvin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,502 girls were recorded with the name Alvina between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 293 in 1917; its best national rank was #236 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,323 in 2020 to #6,128 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,133 in 2015 to #6,128 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Alvina between 1925 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1925; its best national rank was #4,207 in 1925.

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 Alvina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,128
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alvina 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alvina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alvinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alvina was born before 1922 — so the typical Alvina is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,406
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1910s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (2,075).

Is Alvina 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
−160
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−805
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−995
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.5%
Peak was 1917 (293)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#236
1883

Spellings of Alvina

Alvina is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 9.6% against Alvina's 1.5%.

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 Alvina is used

Across 1910–2025, Alvina was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 1,176 girls, against 1 in 26,805 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

085 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 1,176
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 2,083
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 4,762
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 7,143
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 7,143
  6. 6Iowa1 in 11,111
  7. 7Montana1 in 12,500
  8. 8Illinois1 in 20,000

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

Alvina around the world

Where Alvina 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 & Wales
    1999–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1985–1985
    #519
    in 1985
  • France
    1900–2024
    #5,187
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Alvina

People whose public names include Alvina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Alvina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alvina. Linked forms have their own page here.

AlinaAlbinaAlvineAlviina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alvina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,128
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 805
Best rank ever
#236
1883
Peak year
1917
293 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,502
Count in 2025
19

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,207
1925
Peak year
1925
5 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alvina

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

DavinaSarinaShainaSabinaRominaSalinaEdwinaCorinaAlvaLavinaCelinaCarinaSerinaSelinaAlvenaRosinaMelinaAlbinaCatrinaMalinaKalinaJustinaRainaAudrina

Names with a curve like Alvina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alvina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DessieFannyLuraOnaVestaDovieHesterMaudieAlphaOmaErnaTessie

Sibling names for Alvina

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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