Orval
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
7,916
peak year 1918
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 304 births
- Best rank
- #297
- in 1902
- First recorded
- 1880
- #372 that year
- Last recorded
- 1995
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1927
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 110 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1918304#328Peak
- 1920294#338
- 1917282#323
- 1916280#311
- 1922272#362
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #297 in 1902 · peak births 304 in 1918
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
7,916 boys · 12 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 Orval has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.