Orvin
Orvin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 979th, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191745 births
- Best rank
- #979in 1917
- Since 1890
- 1,140people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,140 boys have been named Orvin in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 45 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Orvin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 249 | |
| 1920s | 334 | |
| 1930s | 207 | |
| 1940s | 127 | |
| 1950s | 91 | |
| 1960s | 51 | |
| 1970s | 11 | |
| 1990s | 7 | |
| 2000s | 16 | |
| 2010s | 11 | |
| 2020s | 21 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Orvin was the 979th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Orvin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Melbournepeak 1922
- Wilburtpeak 1920
- Merwinpeak 1928
- Verlpeak 1918
- Gasperpeak 1917
- Nunziopeak 1923
- Burdettepeak 1922
- Florianpeak 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.