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How popular is the name Alvin?
Births per year, rank history and how many Alvins are alive today.
Alvin (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 934th in 2025 with 33 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2012, when 47 babies were given the name, the 704th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1187 in 2016 before climbing back to the 934th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Alvin you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Alvins born in England and Wales are between 8 and 21, and there are at least 970 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Alvin - on average, only one in every 313 such rooms contains a Alvin.
How many babies are named Alvin each year?
Where does Alvin rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Alvin most popular?
Alvin peaked in 2012, when 47 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Alvin?
At least 970 people named Alvin born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Alvin?
Most living Alvins are between 8 and 21; the most common age is about 13.
Is Alvin becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.