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.

Alvern**

#17,182 most common boys' name of all time · #44,908 across all names · 72% male / 28% female · used 1913–1943 · genuinely unisex

Rank among boys
#17,182
Rank overall
#44,908 of 105,966
First appeared
1913
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
76
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1934 #2,892
Best rank
#2,892 1934
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940

Alvern first appears in 1913. 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
1943 5 — 5 —
1935 — 6 6 #3,443
1934 — 8 8 #2,892
1933 — 7 7 #3,137
1931 6 — 6 —
1930 — 6 6 #3,767
1927 — 5 5 #4,378
1925 — 6 6 #3,894
1921 — 5 5 #4,485
1920 5 — 5 —
1918 — 6 6 #3,883
1915 — 6 6 #3,583
1913 5 — 5 —