Orva — unisex name

What the Data Says About Orva

The Social Security Administration has registered 508 babies named Orva between 1890 and 1966, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Orva currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1966. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Orva is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 105 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Orva performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 156 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Orva shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in West Virginia, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Orva in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Orva 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 508 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.