Orvil

Where Orvil comes from

Orvil hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1895
    Orvil A. Anderson born
    American soldier and balloonist
  2. 1897
    First appearance
    #1,057 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1912
    Orvil Dryfoos born
    American newspaper publisher
  4. 1921
    Peak, #698
    86 babies named Orvil — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,078.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Orvil A. Anderson · American soldier and balloonist, 1895–1965
  • Orvil Dryfoos · American newspaper publisher, 1912–1963

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.