Orvil
Orvil was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 1,935 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orvil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Orvil?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,214, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
86 babies in 1921, the peak
Orvil peaked in 1921, when 86 boys were given it, #704 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #9,214 | 2.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,017 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,572 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,236 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,312 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,766 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,585 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,841 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,577 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,388 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | #3,822 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,176 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,000 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,380 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,232 | 3.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,947 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,503 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,822 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,070 | 7.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,457 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,243 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,401 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,083 | 7.6 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,226 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,817 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,600 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,088 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,692 | 11.4 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,835 | 9.8 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,592 | 12.9 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,197 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,424 | 16.9 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,479 | 16.1 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,266 | 22.4 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,104 | 29.3 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,357 | 21.6 |
| 1939 | 40 | #1,012 | 36.1 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,332 | 23.4 |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,140 | 31.9 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,265 | 27.0 |
| 1935 | 55 | #848 | 52.8 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,089 | 35.8 |
| 1933 | 41 | #1,010 | 41.4 |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,074 | 38.3 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,095 | 37.5 |
| 1930 | 44 | #1,047 | 40.1 |
| 1929 | 56 | #898 | 52.1 |
| 1928 | 57 | #888 | 51.5 |
| 1927 | 56 | #922 | 49.7 |
| 1926 | 55 | #912 | 49.5 |
| 1925 | 52 | #941 | 46.6 |
| 1924 | 61 | #893 | 53.9 |
| 1923 | 55 | #927 | 50.2 |
| 1922 | 55 | #945 | 50.5 |
| 1921 | 86 | #704 | 78.1 |
| 1920 | 62 | #875 | 58.3 |
| 1919 | 75 | #744 | 76.5 |
| 1918 | 59 | #866 | 58.2 |
| 1917 | 57 | #853 | 61.6 |
| 1916 | 55 | #852 | 61.8 |
| 1915 | 53 | #853 | 62.5 |
| 1914 | 41 | #850 | 62.6 |
| 1913 | 36 | #798 | 70.2 |
| 1912 | 31 | #793 | 72.1 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,357 | 35.4 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,098 | 51.5 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,239 | 42.7 |
| 1908 | 11 | #864 | 71.3 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,301 | 40.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #999 | 57.1 |
| 1901 | 7 | #921 | 65.7 |
| 1899 | 7 | #919 | 65.9 |
| 1898 | 8 | #865 | 65.2 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,186 | 44.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orvil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orvil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orvil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orvil, and how old are they?
An estimated 318 Americans named Orvil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 64 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 516 people named Orvil (3 women and girls, 513 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 456 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Orvil rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Where are babies named Orvil born?
The states with the most babies named Orvil are Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arkansas, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Kentucky and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 174 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Kentucky | 101 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Arkansas | 84 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Texas | 63 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 56 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Utah | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Orvil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Orvil is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Orvil with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 11,379 babies since 1880, Orvil is the second most given (17% 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 Orvil
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 Orvil and names like it
- Compare Orvil and OrvalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOrvil peaked in 1921.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orvil since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Orvil.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Orvil alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.