Arvis

Last seen for girls in 1965 at #5,289 · Last seen for boys in 1991 at #8,236
Given to boys 77.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1935 · 19 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
640
since 1913

Arvis over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #2,297, 1940peak #1,584, 1935girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1991—#8,2365
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1988—#5,7517
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1981—#5,4686
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1973—#4,0547
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1969—#3,5957
1968—#4,1365
1967—#2,9858
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1965#5,2897#2,7809
1964—#2,8549
1963#5,8916#3,0448
1962#6,5785#2,67310
1961—#4,0655
1960#6,3905#3,3377
1959—#2,41412
1958#6,1035—
1957—#2,63110
1956—#2,62810
1955#3,09514#2,55810
1954#3,49011#2,20713
1953#3,48011#3,7985
1952—#2,37611
1951#4,8336#3,0667
1950#4,3157#3,3296
1949—#2,6069
1948—#2,11513
1947—#2,6719
1946—#2,6908
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1944—#2,6338
1943#4,6915#1,83316
1942#4,1246#2,14512
1941#4,4205#1,63318
1940#2,29713#1,89414
1939—#1,63617
1938—#1,74116
1937—#2,4799
1936#4,1815#1,72316
1935—#1,58419
1934#3,8026#1,86015
1933#3,4067#1,90514
1932#3,2748#2,10113
1931#4,3315#1,69318
1930—#2,17813
1929#4,0536#3,2477
1928—#3,3577
1927#4,2866#2,52311
1926#3,5648#1,98116
1925—#3,1558
1924—#2,64111
1923#4,3766#1,94117
1922#4,4456#2,24014
1921#3,6668#1,90418
1920#4,9755#2,9679
1919—#2,51111
1918—#3,3687
1917#3,7137—
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1915—#2,18412
1914—#1,86812
1913—#2,4966
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five boys were named Arvis! It came in at #2,496, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1917, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Arvis is popular in 1913

No state had 5 or more boys named Arvis in 1913, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arvis
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1991
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 1935 at #1,584 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1937, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 54,564
  • Highest: 1 in 54,564 boys born in 1914 were named Arvis (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 404,066 boys born in 1991 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,584 in 1935, was only 1 in 54,808 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1930s
  • 23.4% of all boys named Arvis (150) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1959
  • Mostly girls until 1958, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s58#1,868 (1914)#2,495
1920s118#1,904 (1921)#2,596
1930s150#1,584 (1935)#1,890
1940s107#1,633 (1941)#2,247
1950s84#2,207 (1954)#2,779
1960s68#2,673 (1962)#3,274
1970s32#3,836 (1970)#4,557
1980s18#5,468 (1981)#5,914
1990s5#8,236 (1991)#8,236

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Arvis in 1913

boys
#2,496
6 births · 1 in 85,428 boys

Top boys' names in 1913

  1. #1John29,329
  2. #2William23,538
  3. #3James20,832
  4. #4Robert15,684
  5. #5Joseph14,471
  6. #6George13,874
  7. #7Charles13,191
  8. #8Edward9,474
  9. #9Frank9,237
  10. #10Thomas7,096
  11. #2,496Arvis6
More about 1913

boys

512,566 boys got a published name in 1913; 1 in 85,428 of them was named Arvis, which outranked 23.5% of the 3,261 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arvis
  1. #2,273Wladyslaw7
  2. #2,273Woodruff7
  3. #2,273York7
  4. #2,496Arvis6
  5. #2,496Acel6
  6. #2,496Ada6
  7. #2,496Addis6
  8. #2,821Abb5
  9. #2,821Abbott5
  10. #2,821Abney5

Tied with 324 names at #2,496; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,050Mathias#1,885 → #835
  2. ↑ 935Hymen#1,885 → #950
  3. ↑ 796Waldemar#1,746 → #950
  4. ↑ 751Rolf#1,746 → #995
  5. ↑ 689Domenico#1,619 → #930
Fallers
  1. ↓ 975Holland#970 → #1,945
  2. ↓ 885Cameron#918 → #1,803
  3. ↓ 868Larue#935 → #1,803
  4. ↓ 726Irene#854 → #1,580
  5. ↓ 688Hughie#892 → #1,580

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1913 →