Orval
The boy's name Orval has been in the national records since 1880, with 7,928 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1995. About 1,200 Orvals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Orval boys named Orval
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,928
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 74
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 327th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 12 / 7,916
How old the living Orvals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,928 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,200 are alive — 15 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 880 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Orvals
- Orval Faubus (1910–1994)36th governor of Arkansas
People named Orval with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Orval is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Orval is most concentrated in Oklahoma (8.3×), West Virginia (6.6×), Kansas (6.0×), Nebraska (5.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Orval peaked:
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Orval against another name
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.