Alvaro
Last seen for girls in 2002 at #15,432 · #777 for boys in 2025, 328 births
Given to boys >99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 354 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,357since 1914
Alvaro over time
Rank among boys' names. Alvaro has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #777 | 328 | |
| 2024 | — | #769 | 328 | |
| 2023 | — | #716 | 371 | |
| 2022 | — | #793 | 318 | |
| 2021 | — | #834 | 285 | |
| 2020 | — | #853 | 267 | |
| 2019 | — | #824 | 274 | |
| 2018 | — | #855 | 258 | |
| 2017 | — | #854 | 255 | |
| 2016 | — | #803 | 287 | |
| 2015 | — | #908 | 237 | |
| 2014 | — | #926 | 230 | |
| 2013 | — | #849 | 251 | |
| 2012 | — | #898 | 231 | |
| 2011 | — | #821 | 265 | |
| 2010 | — | #773 | 287 | |
| 2009 | — | #771 | 296 | |
| 2008 | — | #644 | 380 | |
| 2007 | — | #612 | 408 | |
| 2006 | — | #576 | 432 | |
| 2005 | — | #580 | 395 | |
| 2004 | — | #590 | 374 | |
| 2003 | — | #548 | 410 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #577 | 378 |
| 2001 | — | #544 | 396 | |
| 2000 | — | #513 | 441 | |
| 1999 | — | #539 | 378 | |
| 1998 | — | #569 | 343 | |
| 1997 | — | #562 | 337 | |
| 1996 | — | #575 | 316 | |
| 1995 | — | #547 | 343 | |
| 1994 | — | #560 | 337 | |
| 1993 | — | #563 | 329 | |
| 1992 | — | #575 | 313 | |
| 1991 | — | #542 | 350 | |
| 1990 | — | #576 | 309 | |
| 1989 | — | #521 | 336 | |
| 1988 | — | #605 | 241 | |
| 1987 | — | #565 | 256 | |
| 1986 | — | #533 | 277 | |
| 1985 | — | #455 | 354 | |
| 1984 | — | #656 | 173 | |
| 1983 | — | #605 | 199 | |
| 1982 | — | #605 | 200 | |
| 1981 | — | #599 | 205 | |
| 1980 | — | #644 | 181 | |
| 1979 | — | #684 | 155 | |
| 1978 | — | #677 | 152 | |
| 1977 | — | #746 | 130 | |
| 1976 | — | #768 | 117 | |
| 1975 | — | #705 | 138 | |
| 1974 | — | #742 | 119 | |
| 1973 | — | #756 | 112 | |
| 1972 | — | #815 | 96 | |
| 1971 | — | #782 | 108 | |
| 1970 | — | #921 | 75 | |
| 1969 | — | #827 | 87 | |
| 1968 | — | #910 | 63 | |
| 1967 | — | #867 | 68 | |
| 1966 | — | #888 | 66 | |
| 1965 | — | #929 | 63 | |
| 1964 | — | #982 | 59 | |
| 1963 | — | #936 | 64 | |
| 1962 | — | #907 | 70 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,121 | 49 | |
| 1960 | — | #911 | 69 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,156 | 45 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,006 | 57 | |
| 1957 | — | #981 | 60 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,218 | 39 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,066 | 50 | |
| 1954 | — | #918 | 65 | |
| 1953 | — | #999 | 52 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,027 | 49 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,195 | 37 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,052 | 45 | |
| 1949 | — | #997 | 49 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,231 | 34 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,252 | 34 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,124 | 38 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,445 | 21 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,738 | 16 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,529 | 21 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,730 | 17 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,446 | 22 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,627 | 18 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,489 | 20 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,818 | 15 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,576 | 19 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,540 | 19 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,029 | 13 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,213 | 30 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,361 | 24 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,426 | 24 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,170 | 34 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,215 | 34 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,611 | 21 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,111 | 40 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,407 | 28 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,466 | 25 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,451 | 26 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,187 | 37 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,589 | 23 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,470 | 26 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,766 | 20 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,336 | 13 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,265 | 13 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,596 | 22 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,188 | 13 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,949 | 15 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,829 | 8 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alvaro! It came in at #2,651, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1915, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
See more about Alvaro
- 8 spots since 2024 (#769 → #777)
- 76 spots since 2020 (#853 → #777)
- 131 spots since 2015 (#908 → #777)
- Biggest jump: 245 spots in 1960 (#1,156 → #911)
- Biggest drop: 210 spots in 1961 (#911 → #1,121)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1985 at #455 (354 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 69 yrs · run 1962–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,454 boys born in 2000 were named Alvaro (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,208 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #455 in 1985, was only 1 in 5,221 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.5% of all boys named Alvaro (3,910) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 78 | #1,596 (1918) | #2,246 |
| 1920s | 259 | #1,111 (1928) | #1,539 |
| 1930s | 232 | #1,170 (1931) | #1,484 |
| 1940s | 270 | #997 (1949) | #1,412 |
| 1950s | 499 | #918 (1954) | #1,062 |
| 1960s | 658 | #827 (1969) | #928 |
| 1970s | 1,202 | #677 (1978) | #760 |
| 1980s | 2,422 | #455 (1985) | #579 |
| 1990s | 3,355 | #539 (1999) | #561 |
| 2000s | 3,910 | #513 (2000) | #596 |
| 2010s | 2,575 | #773 (2010) | #851 |
| 2020s | 1,897 | #716 (2023) | #790 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alvaro in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
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1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 11,107 of them was named Alvaro, which outranked 90.3% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).