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Arvilla vs Arvis

American parents have registered 2,931 Arvillas since 1880, against 829 Arvises. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arvilla against Arvis, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arvilla Arvis

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 98 years in which either name was published, Arvilla for 76 years and Arvis for 22 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Arvilla Arvis
Total US births 2,931829
Most in one year 9627
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 380310
Median age today 8270
Peak year 19241935
Best rank 761st girls1,584th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801913
Girls / boys 2,931 / 0189 / 640

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 Arvillas alive today are over 82; half the Arvises are over 70. That is 12 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: Arvilla and Arvis.