Girls' name · since 1910
Orvetta
159 babies named Orvetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1910, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #22,203 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 159
- born since 1910
- 1920s
- peak decade
Orvetta sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 159 recorded since 1910.
Orvetta has 159 recorded births among girls since 1910, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1910 to 1960.
- #22,203 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 159 born since 1910
- 1920s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Orvetta ranks #22,203 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 159 born since 1910, peaking in the 1920s.
- #22,203 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 159
- born since 1910
- 1920s
- peak decade
Orvetta's 159 recorded births place it above 69.27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Orvetta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Orvetta's full recorded timeline at 1924, 41% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 59% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1910, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1923 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Orvetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1910–1960
- Peak year (1923)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 51 years of records
Orvetta by decade
1920s is the heaviest window (65 births, 41% of the file).
1920s was Orvetta's strongest decade.
65 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 41% of all-time use.
Orvetta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
56 births
- 1920s
1920s
65 births
- 1930s 17
1930s
17 births
- 1940s 16
1940s
16 births
- 1960s 5
1960s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 65 births (41% of all-time use).
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- Orvetta's decade-level peak was the 1920s (65 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1960s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Orvetta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1923)
Similar record span (~50 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1910–1960 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Orvetta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.