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Orvin

The boy's name Orvin has been in the national records since 1890, with 1,140 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 250 Orvins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Orvin

By the numbers

Total US births
1,140
Estimated living today
250
Median age today
68
Peak year
1917
Best rank
964th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1890

How old the living Orvins are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,140 babies given the name since 1890, about 250 are alive — 22 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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 Orvin is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Orvin is most concentrated in North Dakota (51.2×), Minnesota (31.6×), Wisconsin (10.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1917

The most popular boys’ names the year Orvin peaked:

All the names of 1917

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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.