Orval

Where Orval comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Orval.

Orval through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #363 among boys, with 22 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1902
    Peak, #291
    42 babies named Orval, its best rank.
  3. 1910
    Orval Faubus born
    36th governor of Arkansas
  4. 1926
    Orval H. Hansen born
    American politician
  5. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,962.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Orval Faubus · 36th governor of Arkansas, 1910–1994
  • Orval H. Hansen · American politician, 1926–2017
  • Orval Tessier · Canadian ice hockey coach, 1933–2022
  • Orval Hobart Mowrer · American psychologist, 1907–1982
  • Orval Grove · American baseball pitcher, 1919–1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.