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Arvil vs Arvind

American parents have registered 2,589 Arvils since 1880, against 570 Arvinds. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arvil against Arvind, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arvil Arvind

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 118 years in which either name was published, Arvil for 77 years and Arvind for 41 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Arvil Arvind
Total US births 2,589570
Most in one year 7926
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 630550
Median age today 7325
Peak year 19242001
Best rank 746th boys3,321st boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18921970
Girls / boys 0 / 2,5890 / 570

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Arvils alive today are over 73; half the Arvinds are over 25. That is 48 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Arvil and Arvind.