Arvel
Arvel is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 689th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192177 births
- Best rank
- #689in 1902
- Since 1894
- 2,202people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,202 boys have been named Arvel in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 77 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 77 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Arvel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 20 | |
| 1900s | 66 | |
| 1910s | 433 | |
| 1920s | 591 | |
| 1930s | 401 | |
| 1940s | 291 | |
| 1950s | 158 | |
| 1960s | 127 | |
| 1970s | 84 | |
| 1980s | 14 | |
| 1990s | 12 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Arvel was the 760th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Arvel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Foypeak 1921
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Odispeak 1921
- Estelpeak 1921
- Estillpeak 1919
- Odellpeak 1922
- Pasqualepeak 1917
- Bufordpeak 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.