girls:
123 births since 1928
#5593 (2nd percentile)
boys:
17.6k births since 1882
#866 (81st percentile)
overall:
17.7k births since 1882
#1936 (75th percentile)
The name Jarvis is the #1,936 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,718 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 75.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #866 (81.1% percentile) for all time with 17,595 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,593 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 123 births since 1928.
Jarvis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1928 for girls). Birth data for Jarvis is available in 128 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (128 years for boys and 17 years for girls). 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.
The name Jarvis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jarvis reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 55.6% percentile (ranked #337) with 302 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 302 births per million (ranked 55.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jarvis ranks #825 for boys (9.5% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 16.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jarvis reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #780) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jarvis".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jarvis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.4% confident that Jarvis is pronounced as JAHR-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAHR-vuhs, at 19.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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