Arvo
Arvo was last recorded in 2020, when 8 babies were given it; 317 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arvo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arvo mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Arvo is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the senses “value” (arvo) and “precious” (arvokas).
Associated with arvo (“value”) and arvokas (“precious”), and thus popular as a given name in the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally a variant of Arvi, cognate with Swedish Arvid. Possibly also from another Germanic names; see Arvila.
/ˈɑrʋo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arvo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,809, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1915, the peak
Arvo peaked in 1915, when 43 boys were given it, #953 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | #8,809 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,420 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,345 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,101 | 2.4 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,380 | 3.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,573 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,614 | 5.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,189 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,147 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,898 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 11 | #2,625 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,497 | 11.0 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,382 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,891 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,453 | 25.5 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,653 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,293 | 30.3 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,337 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 43 | #953 | 50.7 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,265 | 33.6 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,443 | 27.3 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,756 | 20.9 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,040 | 48.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,465 | 30.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arvo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arvo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arvo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arvo, and how old are they?
An estimated 26 Americans named Arvo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 114 people named Arvo (0 women and girls, 114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 25 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,066 babies since 1880, Arvo is the second most given (30% 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.
More about Arvo and names like it
- Compare Arvo and ArvieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sArvo peaked in 1915.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arvo since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Arvo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Arvo.
- Names starting with AMost given first.