Arville — boys' name
758 babies named Arville in U.S. Social Security records since 1907, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Arville was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Arville in 1923 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Arville
The Social Security Administration has registered 758 babies named Arville between 1907 and 1977, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arville currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1977. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 29 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Arville performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 214 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Arville shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Arville in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Arville in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 758 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Arville at a glance
Last recorded 1977Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Arville popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1977–1907
- Peak year (1923)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 71 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1977.
758 total births across 71 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1923 with 29 births in a single year.
Arville popularity over time — girls
11 total births recorded since 1909 (Arville as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Arville accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Arville by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 214 births that decade — 28% of Arville's all-time total
Arville decade highlights
- Peak decade 214 births
- Runner-up 167 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Arville's strongest decade
214 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Arville by state
Where Arville concentrates geographically — total births since 1907
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Kentucky | | 55 | 7.3% |
| #2 | Texas | | 10 | 1.3% |
| #3 | Tennessee | | 5 | 0.7% |
55 of 758 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Kentucky 7.3% of nationwide
- Texas 1.3% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Kentucky accounts for 7.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1907–1977 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.