Orval
Orval is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 297th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1918304 births
- Best rank
- #297in 1902
- Since 1880
- 7,915people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,915 boys have been named Orval in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 304 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 304 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Orval | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 141 | |
| 1890s | 223 | |
| 1900s | 365 | |
| 1910s | 2,004 | |
| 1920s | 2,284 | |
| 1930s | 1,213 | |
| 1940s | 851 | |
| 1950s | 461 | |
| 1960s | 211 | |
| 1970s | 103 | |
| 1980s | 35 | |
| 1990s | 24 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Orval was the 328th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Orval
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Alphonsepeak 1918
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
- Clementpeak 1918
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Chalmerpeak 1918
- Herschelpeak 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.