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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Orvel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Orvel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Orvel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Orvel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Orvel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Orvel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Orvel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Orvel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1888 9 0.000030053 9 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1907 7 0.000015041 7 -100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 18 0.000018217 18 -100%
1913 27 0.000023744 27 -100%
1914 25 0.000017651 25 -100%
1915 30 0.000016372 30 -100%
1916 34 0.000017576 34 -100%
1917 33 0.000016444 33 -100%
1918 39 0.000017963 39 -100%
1919 56 0.000026537 56 -100%
1920 32 0.000014143 32 -100%
1921 40 0.000017134 40 -100%
1922 39 0.000017037 39 -100%
1923 39 0.000016938 39 -100%
1924 45 0.000018895 45 -100%
1925 31 0.000013286 31 -100%
1926 24 0.000010453 24 -100%
1927 35 0.00001509 35 -100%
1928 27 0.000011942 27 -100%
1929 34 0.00001551 34 -100%
1930 29 0.000013044 29 -100%
1931 21 0.000009979 21 -100%
1932 14 0.000006631 14 -100%
1933 29 0.000014504 29 -100%
1934 26 0.000012519 26 -100%
1935 35 0.000016747 35 -100%
1936 17 0.000008183 17 -100%
1937 25 0.000011733 25 -100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 -100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 -100%
1940 16 0.000006948 16 -100%
1941 12 0.000004925 12 -100%
1942 24 0.000008785 24 -100%
1943 20 0.000007086 20 -100%
1944 17 0.00000632 17 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 -100%
1947 17 0.000004719 17 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%

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