Orvel
Recorded 1888–1972 · United States
Orvel was most popular in 1919, when 56 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,774 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,157 people named Orvel.
Orvel over time
How old is the name Orvel?
Orvel first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1888, which makes it about 137 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 61 of the 138 years since. It was last recorded in 1972.
How many people are named Orvel?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,157 American births named Orvel between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 187 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Orvel in 2025?
Orvel was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Orvel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Orvel is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 1,157 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Orvel?
Roughly 187 Americans named Orvel are alive today — 16% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 70 and 84.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Orvel is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org