Orvil
Recorded 1897–1991 · United States
Orvil was most popular in 1921, when 86 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,458 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,935 people named Orvil.
Orvil over time
How old is the name Orvil?
Orvil first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1897, which makes it about 128 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 74 of the 129 years since. It was last recorded in 1991.
How many people are named Orvil?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,935 American births named Orvil 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 345 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Orvil in 2025?
Orvil 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 Orvil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Orvil is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 1,935 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 Orvil?
Roughly 345 Americans named Orvil are alive today — 18% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 76 years old, and half are between 66 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 Orvil 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