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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Orville

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#6,347

up +800 places

2025 births

14

up +2 births

All-time births

35,065

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1920
1,195 births
Best rank
#120
in 1913
First recorded
1880
#239 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1930
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19201,195#134Peak
  2. 19181,188#134
  3. 19211,149#137
  4. 19191,120#133
  5. 19151,076#127

Rank over time

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

Best rank #120 in 1913 · peak births 1,195 in 1920

Boys and girls

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

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

35,065 boys · 155 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 Orville has ranked, decade by decade

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