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Arvel

Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Arvel has been given to 2,202 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1921, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Arvel, 2006

1 in 791,000

Arvel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arvel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arvel means

Arvel is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Arvel is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,202 boys were recorded with the name Arvel between 1894 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1921; its best national rank was #688 in 1902.

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.

How common is Arvel?

Arvel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arvel 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arvel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arvels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arvel was born before 1929 — so the typical Arvel is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
400
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (591).

Is Arvel 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 1921 (77)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#688
1902

Spellings of Arvel

Arvel is not the most common spelling — Angel is, with 32.0% against Arvel's 0.26%.

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.

Where Arvel is used

Across 1910–2025, Arvel was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 67,452 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 16,667
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arvel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arvel 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
—
Best rank ever
#688
1902
Peak year
1921
77 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
2,202
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arvel

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

ArvidArvinArvilPavelMarvelArvisArvieRevelOrvelArvikArvindAvelArvellArvilleArvoArvleNorvelSamvelArvalArvonCarvelLavelJavelArvine

Names with a curve like Arvel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Arvel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MilburnNorvalEstelBerylFoyEwellNortonOrlandVirgleHillardVerlMerl

Sibling names for Arvel

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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