Orvin
Recorded 1890–2024 · United States
Orvin was most popular in 1917, when 45 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,940 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,140 people named Orvin.
Orvin over time
How old is the name Orvin?
Orvin first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1890, which makes it about 135 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 69 of the 136 years since.
How many people are named Orvin?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,140 American births named Orvin 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 256 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Orvin in 2025?
Orvin 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 Orvin getting more or less popular?
Orvin is new. It was not recorded at all a decade ago and averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Orvin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Orvin is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 1,140 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% 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 Orvin?
Roughly 256 Americans named Orvin are alive today — 23% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 69 years old, and half are between 58 and 82.
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 Orvin 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