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Alvyn

Alvyn reached its high-water mark in 1932 at number 3,092, and has been recorded 33 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 30 Alvyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Alvyn

By the numbers

Total US births
33
Estimated living today
30
Median age today
16
Peak year
1932
Best rank
3,092nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1932

How old the living Alvyns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 33 babies given the name since 1932, about 30 are alive — 79 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Alvyns

People named Alvyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1932

The most popular boys’ names the year Alvyn peaked:

All the names of 1932

Alvyn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Alvyn 335 1,160th
England and Wales boys Alvyn 6 5,119th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.