Arvell
Arvell was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 396 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arvell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arvell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,232, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1929, the peak
Arvell peaked in 1929, when 14 boys were given it, #2,102 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #12,232 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,602 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,020 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,448 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,001 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,353 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,593 | 2.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,588 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,901 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,970 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 5 | #5,523 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,296 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,387 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,778 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,953 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,074 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,667 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,322 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,668 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,066 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,832 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,575 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,636 | 4.7 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,755 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,445 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,885 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,737 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,441 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,323 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,795 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,104 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,554 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,006 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,574 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,539 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,159 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,619 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,335 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,553 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,167 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,252 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,311 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,296 | 6.1 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,792 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,102 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,671 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,799 | 5.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,387 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,342 | 11.9 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,268 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,231 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,775 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,127 | 8.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,239 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 8 | #2,940 | 9.0 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,943 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arvell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arvell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arvell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arvell, and how old are they?
An estimated 180 Americans named Arvell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 49 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 246 people named Arvell (18 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Arvell?
Arvell is a less common spelling of Arvel: SSA has recorded 396 Arvell and 2,202 Arvel since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,272 babies since 1880, Arvell is the third most given (7.5% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arvell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arvell and names like it
- Compare Arvell and ArvelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArvell peaked in 1929.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Arvell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arvell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.