Alvaro
Alvaro is ranked 770th among boys in 2024 (327 births). Its best rank was 455th, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- #770down 54 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3270.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2000441 births
- Best rank
- #455in 1985
- Since 1914
- 17,027people given the name
The story in the numbers
17,027 boys have been named Alvaro in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 441 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 926 → 770).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 23%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Alvaro | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 78 | |
| 1920s | 259 | |
| 1930s | 232 | |
| 1940s | 270 | |
| 1950s | 499 | |
| 1960s | 658 | |
| 1970s | 1,203 | |
| 1980s | 2,422 | |
| 1990s | 3,353 | |
| 2000s | 3,910 | |
| 2010s | 2,575 | |
| 2020s | 1,568 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Alvaro was the 513th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Alvaro
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Everardopeak 2004
- Noepeak 2007
- Junpeak 2003
- Cristobalpeak 2001
- Ianpeak 2005
- Stefanopeak 1993
- Javierpeak 2001
- Andrespeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.