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Around the globe, Alv (Alv , Albus , Alfr ) is a rare dominantly male, but infrequently feminine given name. The first name Alv is characteristic of Norway, where it is a rare male name, Bolivia, and Greece. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Indonesia, Algeria, and Bolivia. More frequently, Alv is the last name as well as the forename.
Alv is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Albus Dumbledore , the fictional character from Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Albus Severus Potter , the fictional character in the Harry Potter universe.