Orvil
Orvil is a boy's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 698th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1991. About 340 Orvils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Orvil
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,935
- Estimated living today
- 340
- Median age today
- 75
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 698th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1897
How old the living Orvils are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,935 babies given the name since 1897, about 340 are alive — 17 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 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.
Where Orvil is most common
Across the country Orvil is recorded 0.15 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Orvils are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Orvil peaked:
Related names
Orvil against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.