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Arve

Boys' name

Heir

Arve has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Arve, 1928

1 in 452,000

Arve over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arve: meaning, origin, and history

Heir

Old Norse

What Arve means

Arve means “heir”, associated with arfi.

Origin, language, and formation

Arve is used in Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Arve comes through Old Norse Arviðr and Old Norse *Arfi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Arve between 1925 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1925; its best national rank was #4,186 in 1928.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Arve?

Arve had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928
1 in 452,000
5 of 2,260,857 births
Among boys only
1 in 222,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1928
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
313,422 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arve sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1928 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 313,422 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arve. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arves were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arve was born before 1925 — so the typical Arve is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Arve rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (5)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,186
1928

Spellings of Arve

Arve is not the most common spelling — Harvey is, with 24.3% against Arve's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Arve around the world

Where Arve ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #448
    in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Arve by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,186
1928
Peak year
1925
5 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1928
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arve

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArviArvyArvolArvaanArvenArvanArvileArvikArvaniArveyArvardArveneArvionArvandArvillMarveArvonArvalArvydasArvelleArvleArvoArvesterArvine

Sibling names for Arve

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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