girls:
155 births since 1914
#5561 (3rd percentile)
boys:
35k births since 1880
#606 (87th percentile)
overall:
35.2k births since 1880
#1334 (83rd percentile)
The name Orville is the #1,334 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 35,193 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #606 (86.8% percentile) for all time with 35,038 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,561 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 155 births since 1914.
Orville has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Orville has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Orville reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 76.0% percentile (ranked #129) with 1,103 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 1,261 births per million (ranked 71.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Orville ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Orville reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #590) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1934.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Orville".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Orville. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Orville is pronounced as OR-vihl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OR-vuhl, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
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