boys:
2.2k births since 1894
#2683 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1894
#5590 (28th percentile)
The name Arvel is the #5,590 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,202 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 27.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,683 (41.5% percentile) for all time with 2,202 births since 1894.
Arvel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (first recorded for boys in 1894). Birth data for Arvel is available in 85 out of the 113 years between 1894 and 2006. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Arvel reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 13.1% percentile (ranked #478) with 68 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 83 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arvel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Arvel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.1% confident that Arvel is pronounced as AHR-vuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-VEHL, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 R V AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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