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Alva vs Alvada

American parents have registered 20,158 Alvas since 1880, against 37 Alvadas. Alva is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Alva against Alvada, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Alva Alvada

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alva has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1917, when Alva had 478 and Alvada had 11.

Side by side

  Alva Alvada
Total US births 20,15837
Most in one year 47811
Babies in 2025 28under 5
Estimated living today 5,5001
Median age today 6590
Peak year 19171917
Best rank 294th boys2,693rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,695thunranked
First recorded 18801917
Girls / boys 8,889 / 11,26937 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alvadas alive today are over 90; half the Alvas are over 65. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alva and Alvada.