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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Orva

Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

508

peak year 1919

More common than

84%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1919
23 births
Best rank
#1,396
in 1895
First recorded
1890
#1,484 that year
Last recorded
1966
no later published record
Average birth year
1923
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
46 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 191923#1,731Peak
  2. 192422#1,911
  3. 191821#1,864
  4. 192021#1,936
  5. 191519#1,778

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,396 in 1895 · peak births 23 in 1919

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 17% boys■ 83% girls

105 boys · 508 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Orva has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.