Àlvin

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Àlvin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old English Ælfwine, made up of ælf (“elf”) + wine (“friend”).

  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 470(inferred from the name graph)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 900
  • GYGuyana1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Àlvin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈240,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
530 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 474 (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ÀlvinLatin(measured from records)
אלוויןHebrew(measured from records)
ალვინGeorgian(measured from records)
앨빈Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Alvin in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Old English Ælfwine, made up of ælf (“elf”) + wine (“friend”).

Cited for this meaning 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Àlvin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Àlvin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#91≈240,000 est.≈1 in 474—Alvin165
US United States#43872,9621 in 4.6K73KAlvin530
MY Malaysia#550≈17,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K911Alvin119
GB United Kingdom#562≈15,000 est.≈1 in 4.6KlistedAlvin183
CA Canada#475≈12,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K4Alvin208
SE Sweden—7,3511 in 1.4K7.4KAlvin50
SG Singapore#93≈6,700 est.≈1 in 898—Alvin155
JM Jamaica#37≈1,500 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Alvin17
GY Guyana—5991 in 1.3K599—10

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Àlvin under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Àlvin mean, and where does it come from?
From Old English Ælfwine, made up of ælf (“elf”) + wine (“friend”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 4 other sources.
Is Àlvin a male or female name?
Àlvin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Àlvin?
Mondonomo estimates about 245 thousand people named Àlvin in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alvin. After it come United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Àlvin?
In the United States, the national register counted 72,962 people named Àlvin in 2020, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
How common is Àlvin compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Àlvin is the 91st most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Àlvin” — the 91st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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