Ovila

Where Ovila comes from

Ovila 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1895
    Debut at its peak, #872
    #872 among boys with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1896
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1901
    Ovila Légaré born
    actor and singer from Quebec
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Ovila Légaré · actor and singer from Quebec, 1901–1978

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.