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Arvilla vs Arville

American parents have registered 2,931 Arvillas since 1880, against 769 Arvilles. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arvilla against Arville, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arvilla Arville

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 90 years in which either name was published, Arvilla for 82 years and Arville for 8 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Arvilla Arville
Total US births 2,931769
Most in one year 9629
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 380160
Median age today 8274
Peak year 19241923
Best rank 761st girls1,358th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801907
Girls / boys 2,931 / 011 / 758

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Arvillas alive today are over 82; half the Arvilles are over 74. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Arvilla and Arville.