Alven is a male first name.
Recently, the name Alven has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Alven. That means that a boy named Alven is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alven.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Alven. Boys named Alven have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,011 Alven ranked higher than ever in 1905. By comparison, there have been 93 years in which the first name Alven has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Alven only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alven was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Alven is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 16 Americans in total bear this name. And these 16 men are located in only three states: Iowa, Louisiana and Missouri (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Alven and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Alven in relation to it’s male population is Iowa. And yet even there, only one in 439,693 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Alven present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Alven is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Alven and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alven, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alven
Alven
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alven sounds like this:
