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How popular is “Orville” in the USA?

Number of people named “Orville” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Orville” 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 “Orville” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Orville” by birth year

This chart shows how “Orville” 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
1880 49 0.000243195 49 -100%
1881 61 0.000316574 61 -100%
1882 46 0.000207644 46 -100%
1883 59 0.000271957 59 -100%
1884 53 0.000217694 53 -100%
1885 79 0.000328 79 -100%
1886 63 0.000246753 63 -100%
1887 54 0.000218277 54 -100%
1888 87 0.000290509 87 -100%
1889 64 0.000221495 64 -100%
1890 88 0.00029197 88 -100%
1891 56 0.000195345 56 -100%
1892 84 0.000251216 84 -100%
1893 78 0.000239835 78 -100%
1894 105 0.000310018 105 -100%
1895 92 0.000262093 92 -100%
1896 89 0.000248962 89 -100%
1897 83 0.000239223 83 -100%
1898 101 0.000264776 101 -100%
1899 94 0.000277095 94 -100%
1900 112 0.000248746 112 -100%
1901 94 0.000271824 94 -100%
1902 108 0.000279262 108 -100%
1903 125 0.000327912 125 -100%
1904 134 0.000332107 134 -100%
1905 125 0.000294866 125 -100%
1906 148 0.00034543 148 -100%
1907 148 0.000318013 148 -100%
1908 153 0.000313108 153 -100%
1909 218 0.000426428 218 -100%
1910 223 0.000377511 223 -100%
1911 230 0.000356989 230 -100%
1912 477 0.000482763 477 -100%
1913 676 0.00059449 676 -100%
1914 792 0.000559186 5 787 -99%
1915 1083 0.00059102 7 1076 -99%
1916 1070 0.000553138 7 1063 -99%
1917 1066 0.000531207 5 1061 -99%
1918 1199 0.000552252 11 1188 -98%
1919 1126 0.000533587 6 1120 -99%
1920 1203 0.000531679 8 1195 -99%
1921 1161 0.000497322 12 1149 -98%
1922 1034 0.000451695 12 1022 -98%
1923 1019 0.000442566 7 1012 -99%
1924 1044 0.000438359 9 1035 -98%
1925 951 0.000407577 11 940 -98%
1926 905 0.00039418 11 894 -98%
1927 861 0.000371223 5 856 -99%
1928 820 0.000362681 9 811 -98%
1929 808 0.000368586 808 -100%
1930 756 0.000340037 9 747 -98%
1931 667 0.000316957 11 656 -97%
1932 654 0.000309763 5 649 -98%
1933 627 0.000313587 627 -100%
1934 598 0.000287941 5 593 -98%
1935 581 0.000278004 581 -100%
1936 516 0.000248366 516 -100%
1937 515 0.000241708 515 -100%
1938 447 0.000202027 447 -100%
1939 494 0.000224195 494 -100%
1940 461 0.000200201 461 -100%
1941 432 0.000177309 432 -100%
1942 445 0.000162895 445 -100%
1943 475 0.000168287 475 -100%
1944 357 0.00013271 357 -100%
1945 332 0.000125146 332 -100%
1946 332 0.000103902 332 -100%
1947 399 0.000110762 399 -100%
1948 321 0.000092976 321 -100%
1949 291 0.000083506 291 -100%
1950 263 0.000075071 263 -100%
1951 255 0.000069223 255 -100%
1952 256 0.000067404 256 -100%
1953 257 0.00006669 257 -100%
1954 244 0.000061296 244 -100%
1955 196 0.000048816 196 -100%
1956 225 0.000054571 225 -100%
1957 235 0.000055924 235 -100%
1958 183 0.000044268 183 -100%
1959 176 0.000042328 176 -100%
1960 155 0.000037315 155 -100%
1961 166 0.000040074 166 -100%
1962 122 0.000030233 122 -100%
1963 135 0.000034106 135 -100%
1964 111 0.000028552 111 -100%
1965 101 0.000027859 101 -100%
1966 112 0.000032224 112 -100%
1967 82 0.000024154 82 -100%
1968 102 0.000030192 102 -100%
1969 97 0.000027911 97 -100%
1970 86 0.000023846 86 -100%
1971 81 0.000023599 81 -100%
1972 74 0.000023544 74 -100%
1973 63 0.000020882 63 -100%
1974 57 0.00001875 57 -100%
1975 71 0.000023515 71 -100%
1976 46 0.00001516 46 -100%
1977 53 0.000016685 53 -100%
1978 45 0.000014178 45 -100%
1979 39 0.000011722 39 -100%
1980 46 0.000013355 46 -100%
1981 45 0.000013008 45 -100%
1982 31 0.000008837 31 -100%
1983 29 0.000008373 29 -100%
1984 23 0.000006593 23 -100%
1985 34 0.000009526 34 -100%
1986 26 0.000007309 26 -100%
1987 26 0.000007211 26 -100%
1988 27 0.000007307 27 -100%
1989 33 0.000008584 33 -100%
1990 27 0.000006831 27 -100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 -100%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 -100%
1993 21 0.00000557 21 -100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 -100%
1995 26 0.0000071 26 -100%
1996 19 0.000005209 19 -100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 -100%
2000 18 0.000004762 18 -100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 -100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 -100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 -100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 -100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 -100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 -100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 -100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 -100%
2017 19 0.000005313 19 -100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 -100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 13 0.000003843 13 -100%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 -100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 -100%

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