Orvel
Orvel is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 742nd, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191956 births
- Best rank
- #742in 1888
- Since 1888
- 1,157people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,157 boys have been named Orvel in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 56 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 56 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 30%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1919, its biggest year
Orvel was the 894th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Orvel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Burdettepeak 1922
- Orlandpeak 1922
- Foypeak 1921
- Vergilpeak 1920
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Elwinpeak 1923
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Eldredpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.