Alva (given name)

Alva is a unisex given name. It is used in Sweden and Norway as a feminine form of the name Alf, meaning "elf." It is also a spelling variant of the Biblical masculine name Alvah, meaning "his highness." Alva is a currently popular name in Sweden, where it was ranked among the ten most popular names given to newborn girls in 2012. Notable people with the name include:

Men

Alva Adams (governor) (1850–1922), Governor of Colorado
Alva B. Adams (1875–1941), U.S. Senator from Colorado, son of the governor
Alva Baptiste, Saint Lucian politician
Alva Ted Bonda (1917–2005), president and part-owner of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team
Alva Bradley (1884–1953), American businessman and baseball executive
Alva M. Cummins (1869–1946), American lawyer
Alva Duer (1904–1987), American college basketball coach
Alva R. Fitch (1907–1989), United States Army lieutenant general
Alva Clark Forney (1871–1956), Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota
Alva Garey (1883–1971), American politician
Alva L. Hager (1850–1923), three-term U.S. Representative from Iowa
Alva L. Kitselman, American businessman from Muncie, Indiana.
Alva Johnston (disambiguation), several people
- Alva Johnston (journalist) (1888–1950), American journalist
- Alva Johnston (politician) (1872–1953), American politician from Nebraska
Alva Kelley (1918–1999), American college football player and coach
Alva Liles (1956–1998), American football player
Alva M. Lumpkin (1886–1941), U.S. Senator from South Carolina for less than a month
Alva Hugh Maddox (1930–2020), justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
Alva Noë (born 1964), American philosopher and cognitive scientist
Alva Allie Paine (1919–2008), American basketball player
Alva Ross (1928–2004), Jamaican politician

Women

Alva Belmont (1853–1933), American socialite and suffragette
Alva Challis (1930–2010), Welsh-born New Zealand geologist
Alva Colquhoun (1942–2025), Australian swimmer
Alva C. Ellisor (1892–1964), American geologist, one of the first female stratigraphers in North America
Alva Forsius (1866–1935), Finnish midwife, social worker and a founding member of the Finnish Salvation Army
Alva Myrdal (1902–1986), Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Fictional characters

Gunnery Sergeant Alva Bricker, on the American sitcom Major Dad
Alva Lorenz, a hunter in the video game Identity V

Alva, in the miniseries Islands

Alva, a tactical android in the video game Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium

References

↑ "Meaning, origin and history of the name Alva (1)".
↑ "Meaning, origin and history of the name Alvah".
↑ "Girls' names 2012 - Statistics Sweden". Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2013-01-21.

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[1] "Meaning, origin and history of the name Alva (1)".

[2] "Meaning, origin and history of the name Alvah".

[3] "Girls' names 2012 - Statistics Sweden". Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2013-01-21.