Is Alva a male or female name?
Alva is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Norway at 100% and male usage in United States at 56%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 52%
- Sample size
- 23,420
- Confidence
- high
Alva by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 56% | 20,120 | ssa |
| Norway NO | female | 100% | 2,112 | ssb |
| Switzerland CH | female | 100% | 362 | bfs |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 271 | statat |
| Ireland IE | female | 98% | 191 | cso |
| England and Wales GB | female | 98% | 182 | ons |
| France FR | female | 100% | 145 | insee |
| Poland PL | female | 100% | 16 | pesel |
Attested in 13 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · NO · PL · SE · US
Alva over time
In the United States, 21.5% of the babies named Alva in the 1880s were girls, against 78.1% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 22% | 845 |
| 1890s | 41% | 1,164 |
| 1900s | 51% | 1,179 |
| 1910s | 42% | 3,382 |
| 1920s | 38% | 4,142 |
| 1930s | 41% | 2,865 |
| 1940s | 42% | 2,091 |
| 1950s | 53% | 1,514 |
| 1960s | 52% | 998 |
| 1970s | 52% | 608 |
| 1980s | 64% | 437 |
| 1990s | 60% | 261 |
| 2000s | 72% | 182 |
| 2010s | 77% | 256 |
| 2020s | 78% | 196 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Alva with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Alva&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Alva
Is Alva a male or female name?
Alva is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Norway at 100% and male usage in United States at 56%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Alva change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Alva identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.