Arvo

Last seen for boys in 2020 at #8,739

Peak · boys
1915 · 43 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
317
since 1909

Arvo over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Arvo has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201911peak #952, 1915boys
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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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First appearance
1909

The first year at least five boys were named Arvo! It came in at #1,440, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1909–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Arvo is popular in 1911

No state had 5 or more boys named Arvo in 1911, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arvo
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2020
  • Biggest jump: 308 spots in 1915 (#1,260 → #952)
  • Biggest drop: 383 spots in 1916 (#952 → #1,335)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1909
  • Peaked 1915 at #952 (43 births)
  • Births halved by 1918, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1915
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,734
  • Highest: 1 in 19,734 boys born in 1915 were named Arvo (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 215,760 boys born in 2020 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 62.8% of all boys named Arvo (199) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#1,440 (1909)#1,440
1910s199#952 (1915)#1,351
1920s73#1,885 (1920)#2,931
1930s11#3,549 (1936)#3,571
1940s0——
1950s6#3,364 (1951)#3,364
1960s5#4,065 (1961)#4,065
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2010s10#12,185 (2016)#12,216
2020s8#8,739 (2020)#8,739

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.

Arvo in 1911

boys
#1,038
11 births · 1 in 20,543 boys

Top boys' names in 1911

  1. #1John13,446
  2. #2William10,593
  3. #3James9,952
  4. #4George6,586
  5. #5Robert6,526
  6. #6Joseph6,488
  7. #7Charles5,725
  8. #8Frank4,314
  9. #9Edward4,164
  10. #10Thomas3,292
  11. #1,038Arvo11
More about 1911

boys

225,970 boys got a published name in 1911; 1 in 20,543 of them was named Arvo, which outranked 48.1% of the 1,999 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arvo
  1. #982Winford12
  2. #982Wright12
  3. #982Young12
  4. #1,038Arvo11
  5. #1,038Ann11
  6. #1,038Anson11
  7. #1,038Arno11
  8. #1,117Addie10
  9. #1,117Almond10
  10. #1,117Andre10

Tied with 78 names at #1,038; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1910
Risers
  1. ↑ 900Vincenzo#1,589 → #689
  2. ↑ 900Wyman#1,589 → #689
  3. ↑ 882Rodger#1,589 → #707
  4. ↑ 796Cedric#1,589 → #793
  5. ↑ 796Hughie#1,589 → #793
Fallers
  1. ↓ 881Bertha#859 → #1,740
  2. ↓ 881Arlo#859 → #1,740
  3. ↓ 831Shelton#556 → #1,387
  4. ↓ 812Guss#928 → #1,740
  5. ↓ 812Halley#928 → #1,740

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

See the top 100 for 1911 →