Arvella
Arvella is a girl's name that peaked in 1926, when it was the 1,166th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 430 Arvellas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Arvella
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,413
- Estimated living today
- 430
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1926
- Best rank
- 1,166th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1887
How old the living Arvellas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,413 babies given the name since 1887, about 430 are alive — 30 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Arvella is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arvella is most concentrated in West Virginia (37.1×), Oklahoma (18.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1926
The most popular girls’ names the year Arvella peaked:
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Arvella against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.