Meaning not yet researched.
Orville: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #120 in 1913.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #120 in 1913; #6,347 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Orville in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,347 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1913, at #120.
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Orville: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #120 in 1913 · most boys in one year: 1,195 (1920).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Orville, making it the 6,347th most common boys’ name of the year, up 800 places from #7,147 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 12 boys named Orville in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #120, reached in 1913. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,195, in 1920. For comparison, it was #6,976 in 2015 and #416 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Orville in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 49 babies with the name. In all, 35,220 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 9,806 babies named Orville.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 139 US boys were named Orville; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Orvil (1,935 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Orvill, Orvell and Orvile are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Orvill (224), Orvell (135), Orvile (118), Orvall (47), Orvalle (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Orville in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 14 | #6,347 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,147 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,184 |
| 2022 | — | — | 13 | #6,738 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,717 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,925 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,504 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,486 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #5,061 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,624 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,976 |
| 2014 | — | — | 17 | #5,420 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,514 |
| 2012 | — | — | 7 | #10,472 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,589 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #11,804 |
| 2009 | — | — | 13 | #6,716 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,696 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,723 |
| 2006 | — | — | 14 | #6,012 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #8,126 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,858 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,157 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,450 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,926 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,329 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,569 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,179 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,401 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,641 |
| 1995 | — | — | 26 | #2,823 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,039 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,219 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,869 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,586 |
| 1990 | — | — | 27 | #2,536 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,138 |
| 1988 | — | — | 27 | #2,290 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,254 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,206 |
| 1985 | — | — | 34 | #1,781 |
| 1984 | — | — | 23 | #2,273 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,891 |
| 1982 | — | — | 31 | #1,843 |
| 1981 | — | — | 45 | #1,427 |
| 1980 | — | — | 45 | #1,426 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,523 |
| 1978 | — | — | 45 | #1,385 |
| 1977 | — | — | 53 | #1,218 |
| 1976 | — | — | 46 | #1,311 |
| 1975 | — | — | 71 | #980 |
| 1974 | — | — | 57 | #1,097 |
| 1973 | — | — | 63 | #1,020 |
| 1972 | — | — | 74 | #938 |
| 1971 | — | — | 81 | #907 |
| 1970 | — | — | 86 | #874 |
| 1969 | — | — | 97 | #788 |
| 1968 | — | — | 102 | #741 |
| 1967 | — | — | 82 | #804 |
| 1966 | — | — | 112 | #701 |
| 1965 | — | — | 101 | #738 |
| 1964 | — | — | 111 | #734 |
| 1963 | — | — | 135 | #676 |
| 1962 | — | — | 121 | #701 |
| 1961 | — | — | 168 | #612 |
| 1960 | — | — | 155 | #629 |
| 1959 | — | — | 176 | #589 |
| 1958 | — | — | 183 | #572 |
| 1957 | — | — | 235 | #507 |
| 1956 | — | — | 225 | #504 |
| 1955 | — | — | 196 | #524 |
| 1954 | — | — | 244 | #467 |
| 1953 | — | — | 257 | #447 |
| 1952 | — | — | 256 | #438 |
| 1951 | — | — | 255 | #426 |
| 1950 | — | — | 263 | #416 |
| 1949 | — | — | 291 | #394 |
| 1948 | — | — | 321 | #380 |
| 1947 | — | — | 399 | #342 |
| 1946 | — | — | 332 | #359 |
| 1945 | — | — | 332 | #326 |
| 1944 | — | — | 357 | #319 |
| 1943 | — | — | 476 | #282 |
| 1942 | — | — | 445 | #287 |
| 1941 | — | — | 431 | #277 |
| 1940 | — | — | 461 | #256 |
| 1939 | — | — | 494 | #238 |
| 1938 | — | — | 447 | #257 |
| 1937 | — | — | 515 | #230 |
| 1936 | — | — | 516 | #222 |
| 1935 | — | — | 581 | #208 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,812 | 593 | #209 |
| 1933 | — | — | 627 | #192 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,932 | 649 | #198 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,717 | 656 | #201 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,266 | 747 | #187 |
| 1929 | — | — | 808 | #174 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,386 | 811 | #178 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,420 | 856 | #172 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,006 | 894 | #164 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,074 | 940 | #161 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,605 | 1,035 | #155 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,277 | 1,012 | #152 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,919 | 1,022 | #151 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,895 | 1,149 | #137 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,873 | 1,195 | #134 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,676 | 1,120 | #133 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,977 | 1,188 | #134 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,142 | 1,061 | #134 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,839 | 1,063 | #131 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,706 | 1,076 | #127 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,066 | 787 | #133 |
| 1913 | — | — | 676 | #120 |
| 1912 | — | — | 477 | #136 |
| 1911 | — | — | 230 | #146 |
| 1910 | — | — | 223 | #142 |
| 1909 | — | — | 218 | #126 |
| 1908 | — | — | 153 | #154 |
| 1907 | — | — | 148 | #154 |
| 1906 | — | — | 148 | #140 |
| 1905 | — | — | 125 | #163 |
| 1904 | — | — | 134 | #146 |
| 1903 | — | — | 125 | #150 |
| 1902 | — | — | 108 | #164 |
| 1901 | — | — | 94 | #162 |
| 1900 | — | — | 112 | #186 |
| 1899 | — | — | 94 | #162 |
| 1898 | — | — | 101 | #164 |
| 1897 | — | — | 83 | #185 |
| 1896 | — | — | 89 | #183 |
| 1895 | — | — | 92 | #170 |
| 1894 | — | — | 105 | #146 |
| 1893 | — | — | 78 | #188 |
| 1892 | — | — | 84 | #187 |
| 1891 | — | — | 56 | #212 |
| 1890 | — | — | 88 | #162 |
| 1889 | — | — | 64 | #203 |
| 1888 | — | — | 87 | #174 |
| 1887 | — | — | 54 | #213 |
| 1886 | — | — | 63 | #212 |
| 1885 | — | — | 79 | #168 |
| 1884 | — | — | 53 | #234 |
| 1883 | — | — | 59 | #198 |
| 1882 | — | — | 46 | #254 |
| 1881 | — | — | 61 | #191 |
| 1880 | — | — | 49 | #239 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).