girls:
10.4k births since 1913
#1557 (73rd percentile)
boys:
7 births since 1936
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
10.4k births since 1913
#2612 (66th percentile)
The name Marva is the #2,612 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,369 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 66.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,557 (72.8% percentile) for all time with 10,362 births since 1913. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1936.
Marva first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1936 for boys). Birth data for Marva is available in 94 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (94 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Marva has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Marva reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 46.3% percentile (ranked #306) with 325 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 325 births per million (ranked 46.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2000, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Marva ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Marva reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #517) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1936.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marva".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Marva is pronounced as MAHR-vuh, which has 2 syllables.
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