Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Alvar

#16,056 most common boys' name of all time · #41,819 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1914–2015

Rank among boys
#16,056
Rank overall
#41,819 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
92
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1917 #2,086
Best rank
#1,969 1914
Girls Boys peak 15/yr
19201940196019802000

Alvar first appears in 1914. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2015 — 6 6 #10,751
2014 — 5 5 #12,243
1925 — 6 6 #3,936
1924 — 5 5 #4,563
1921 — 9 9 #3,120
1920 — 6 6 #4,009
1919 — 8 8 #3,292
1918 — 7 7 #3,559
1917 — 15 15 #2,086
1916 — 7 7 #3,378
1915 — 6 6 #3,616
1914 — 12 12 #1,969