Given name & surname
Alver
“wholly, entirely”·“weather”
Alver is a surname, possibly from Old Norse. It is used in Norwegian Bokmål, Estonian, and Norwegian Nynorsk.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Alver is possibly built from elements meaning “wholly, entirely” and “weather”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1889. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alver through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 124
- 119 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1950. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 153 as a first name in 2020; 130 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Alver’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Alver has a related form in ALFR. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Alver has a related form in Ǫlvér. In Greek usage, Alver as a surname is a transliteration of Άλβερ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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