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Alvaro vs Alverta

American parents have registered 17,362 Alvaros since 1880, against 2,441 Alvertas. Alvaro is still ahead, with 328 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Alvaro Alverta

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

Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Alvaro for 81 years and Alverta for 62 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Alvaro Alverta
Total US births 17,3622,441
Most in one year 441103
Babies in 2025 328under 5
Estimated living today 16,000350
Median age today 2578
Peak year 20001918
Best rank 513th boys711th girls
Rank in 2025 777thunranked
First recorded 19141880
Girls / boys 5 / 17,3572,441 / 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 Alvertas alive today are over 78; half the Alvaros are over 25. That is 53 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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