Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Orval

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Orval
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1918

Peak rank proxy

304

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19182024

Peak year

1918

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

7,915

Orval has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1918, when 304 boys were named Orval.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 7,915 Americans have been named Orval and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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