Alvin

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alvin: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alvin: Recorded since 1951, with a gap of 11 years, its highest recorded position is #126, and it stood at #160 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
91times a registrar ranked it
75years from first to last
#126highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Alvin's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#914
1998	#924
1999	#1505
2000	#1241
2001	#910
2002	#993
2003	#833
2004	#667
2005	#691
2006	#748
2007	#638
2008	#775
2009	#868
2010	#706
2011	#907
2012	#704
2013	#762
2014	#866
2015	#753
2016	#1187
2017	#730
2018	#932
2019	#813
2020	#1051
2021	#907
2022	#1058
2023	#890
2024	#1132
2025	#934

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 33 of the 75 years from 1951 to 2025.

In 2025: #160 among boys in Norway, #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #934 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1951–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1951
First recorded at #373 among boys in Norway in 1951 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1951–2025
Highest recorded position: #126 among boys in Norway, in 2023 (recorded 1951–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #934 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Alvin appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 33 years beginning in 1951, and has registered 690 births with the name.

Alvin across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alvin's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#373 (1951)	#126 (2023)	#160 (2025)	33 of 75	690 (1951–2025)	47 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#290 (1973)	#222 (1976)	#829 (2025)	26 of 53	113 (1973–2025)	10 (2010)
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#638 (2007)	#934 (2025)	30 of 30	901 (1996–2025)	47 (2012)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#305 (2004)	#305 (2004)	#387 (2010)	2 of 7	6 (2004–2010)	3 (2004)

Alvin by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alvin in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	14	3 of 10	5
1970s	5	1 of 10	5
1980s	9	2 of 10	5
1990s	14	3 of 10	5
2000s	118	8 of 10	15
2010sbusiest	344	10 of 10	34
2020s	186	6 of 10	31

Across Norway · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 34 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Alvin appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1951 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #126 in Norway in 2023.

Alvin's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#934	33	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1132	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#890	35	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1058	27	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#907	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#813	38	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#932	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#730	47	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1187	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#753	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#866	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#762	42	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#704	47	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#907	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#706	43	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#868	32	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#775	37	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#638	45	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#748	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#691	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#667	36	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#833	24	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#993	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#910	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1241	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#924	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#387	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#160	32	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#150	35	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#126	47	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#165	30	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#187	24	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#217	18	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#147	40	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#170	33	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#176	31	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#174	33	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#165	36	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#159	38	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#168	35	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#186	31	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#170	36	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#179	31	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#216	26	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#197	27	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#242	20	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#279	15	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#335	10	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#346	9	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#421	7	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#536	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#509	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#529	5	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#578	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#559	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#604	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#542	5	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#413	5	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#375	5	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#373	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#373	10	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#444	7	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#527	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#403	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#304	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#237	6	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#235	7	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#292	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#333	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	8	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	6	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Alvin is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Alvin, between 1951 and 2025, in 50 of those 75 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1951–2025	33	#126 in 2023
Republic of Ireland	1973–2025	26	#222 in 1976
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#638 in 2007
Northern Ireland	2004–2010	2	#305 in 2004

Its high point came 47 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1976) than in Norway (2023).

No registrar recorded it for 11 years after 1959; it appears again in 1971.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1951 and 2025, ranked in 50 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #126, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 47 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1973, and 53 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Alvie · #535, 14y
Alvilde · #176, 35y
Alvina · #519, 26y
Alwyn · #446, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hamza · #125, 45y
Dawid · #122, 50y
Arron · #138, 45y
Karolina · #114, 52y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Ken · #126, 67y
Zainab · #125, 56y
Vegar · #129, 59y
Amir · #130, 69y

Alvin was ranked #126 in Norway · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Erling#122
Helmer#123
Peder#124
Viljar#125
Aslak#127
Teodor#128
Marcus#129
Peter#130

Alvin and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alvin without appearing here.

Alvin moved ahead of

Graeme
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1241 and #2501.
Shannon
In 1996 they stood at #1168 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #914 and #1761.
Derek
In 2024 they stood at #1132 and #1108 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2025 that had become #934 and #1705.
Ashleigh
In 2000 they stood at #1241 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #910 and #1595.

Moved ahead of Alvin

Ezra
In 2016 they stood at #444 and #698 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2017 that had become #710 and #214.
Erik
In 2016 they stood at #373 and #422 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2017 that had become #710 and #272.
Sander
In 1991 they stood at #559 and #633 in Norway · Boys; by 1992 that had become #578 and #152.
Theodor
In 2015 they stood at #753 and #873 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1187 and #774.

Moved the opposite way to Alvin

Anders
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Alvin went from #373 to #160 while Anders went from #60 to #293.
Arild
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Alvin went from #373 to #160 while Arild went from #27 to #489.
Arne
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Alvin went from #373 to #160 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Alvin went from #373 to #160 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Alvin

Aksel
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Alvin went from #373 to #160 and Aksel from #180 to #25.
Alexander
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Alvin went from #373 to #160 and Alexander from #350 to #81.
Alfred
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Alvin went from #373 to #160 and Alfred from #174 to #26.
Arthur
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Alvin went from #373 to #160 and Arthur from #184 to #83.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1951 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #126 in Norway in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alvin

Alvin at a glance

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Popularity journey

Alvin across 4 official records

Alvin by decade in Norway · Boys

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Alvin by decade in Norway · Boys

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