In 2025, 13 US boys were named Alvis, making it the 6,466th most common boys’ name of the year, up 17 places from #6,483 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 13 boys named Alvis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #552, reached in 1912. The most boys given the name in a single year was 101, in 1924. For comparison, it was #4,723 in 2015 and #836 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alvis in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 7 babies. In all, 5,532 US babies have been given the name, 5.9% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 995 babies named Alvis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 128 US boys were named Alvis; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Alves are summarised on this page.