In 2025, 19 US girls were named Alvina, making it the 6,129th most common girls’ name of the year, down 158 places from #5,971 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 20 girls named Alvina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #236, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 293, in 1917. For comparison, it was #5,135 in 2015 and #1,224 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alvina in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 28 babies with the name. In all, 10,507 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 2,075 babies named Alvina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 216 US girls were named Alvina; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Alina (45,387 babies since 1880) and Albina (5,006 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alvena, Alveena and Alvana are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.