Orvin
Orvin was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,140 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Orvin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Orvin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Orvin is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Orvin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,715, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1917, the peak
Orvin peaked in 1917, when 45 boys were given it, #979 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,715 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,622 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,555 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,628 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,589 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,758 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,937 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,968 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,235 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,469 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #4,816 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,446 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,864 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,463 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,823 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,233 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,389 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,565 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,771 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,765 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,600 | 5.1 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,918 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,109 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,015 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,630 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,613 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,242 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,749 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,740 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,466 | 6.0 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,907 | 10.4 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,425 | 16.9 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,052 | 9.8 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,926 | 10.9 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,737 | 13.8 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,874 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,569 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,603 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,735 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,862 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,815 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,540 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,531 | 21.2 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,765 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,325 | 26.9 |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,251 | 30.1 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,234 | 30.7 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,510 | 22.6 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,502 | 23.1 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,119 | 36.9 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,294 | 28.7 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,282 | 29.1 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,189 | 33.8 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,238 | 32.2 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,318 | 29.1 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,133 | 37.6 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,116 | 39.8 |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,122 | 37.5 |
| 1917 | 45 | #979 | 48.6 |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,136 | 38.2 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,117 | 40.1 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,334 | 32.1 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,906 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,404 | 30.2 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,684 | 26.6 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,176 | 46.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,376 | 37.8 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,167 | 47.0 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,115 | 45.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Orvin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Orvin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Orvin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Orvin, and how old are they?
An estimated 242 Americans named Orvin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 55 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 525 people named Orvin (5 women and girls, 520 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 298 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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).
Where are babies named Orvin born?
The states with the most babies named Orvin are Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin and North Dakota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 108 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Wisconsin | 38 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Dakota | 32 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| South Dakota | 6 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Orvin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Orvin is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 4.3 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 Orvin 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,283 babies since 1880, Orvin is the most given (89% 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 Orvin
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 Orvin and names like it
- Compare Orvin and OrvanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOrvin peaked in 1917.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Orvin since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Orvin.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Orvin alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.