Arvel vs Arvid
American parents have registered 3,167 Arvids since 1880, against 2,202 Arvels. Arvid is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Arvel Arvid
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 119 years in which either name was published, Arvid for 93 years and Arvel for 26 years. The lead changed hands 30 times.
- 1880–1965 Arvid ahead, apart from 5 short spells
- 1966–1973 Arvel ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1999–2025 Arvid ahead, apart from one short spell
21 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Arvel | Arvid | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,202 | 3,167 |
| Most in one year | 77 | 100 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 9 |
| Estimated living today | 500 | 800 |
| Median age today | 70 | 71 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 1916 |
| Best rank | 760th boys | 574th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 8,243rd |
| First recorded | 1894 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 2,202 | 0 / 3,167 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Arvel Kentucky (14.0×), Arkansas (10.6×), Oklahoma (10.2×)
- Arvid Minnesota (28.8×), North Dakota (22.5×), Wisconsin (8.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Arvel and Arvid.