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Alvis

#6,462 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

All wise

Alvis has been given to 5,532 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #6,462 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 101 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Alvis, 2025

1 in 255,000

Alvis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Alvis over time

In 2025, Alvis went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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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.

Alvis: meaning, origin, and history

All wise

surname transfer

What Alvis means

Alvis means “all wise”.

Origin, language, and formation

Alvis is used in English and Latvian. Its origins include surname transfer.

Alvis is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alva.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,206 boys were recorded with the name Alvis between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 101 in 1924; its best national rank was #552 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,772 in 2020 to #6,462 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,721 in 2015 to #6,462 in 2025.

In the United States, 326 girls were recorded with the name Alvis between 1911 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,547 in 1911.

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 Alvis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,462
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alvis 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 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alvis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alviss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alvis was born before 1940 — so the typical Alvis is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,896
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (916).

Is Alvis 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
+16
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,310
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,741
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.9%
Peak was 1924 (101)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#552
1912

Spellings of Alvis

Alvis is not the most common spelling — Luis is, with 28.7% against Alvis's 0.51%.

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 Alvis is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Alvis was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 38,385 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 9,091
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 12,500
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 16,667
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 20,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Alvis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Alvis is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Alvis was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 299,154 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 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. Alvis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alvis around the world

Where Alvis 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
    2010–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2025–2025
    #5,445
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1956–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Alvis

People whose public names include Alvis, 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.

Alvis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,462
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,310
Best rank ever
#552
1912
Peak year
1924
101 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,206
Count in 2025
13

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,547
1911
Peak year
1916
14 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
326
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Alvis

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

AlvieAlvaAlvaroTavisAlvahElvisClovisAlvanJavisDavisTrevisAlveyJarvisAlvinoAlvinAlvenAlviaLevisOrvisArvisAlvonMarvisAlvyTevis

Names with a curve like Alvis

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

RollinDorseyAlfordEldridgeReynoldSherwoodHaywardOthaCarletonHaywoodLacyBoyce

Sibling names for Alvis

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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