Arvo

Boys' name

Possibly value + precious, through Arvo

Arvo has been given to 317 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1915, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Arvo, 2020

1 in 418,000

Arvo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arvo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly value + precious, through Arvo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arvo means

Arvo belongs to the name family reached through Arvo → Arvo. Its meaning is “value + precious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Arvo is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Arvo comes through Finnish Arvo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arvi, Arvid and Arvo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Arvo is pronounced /ˈɑrʋo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 317 boys were recorded with the name Arvo between 1909 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1915; its best national rank was #953 in 1915.

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.

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How common is Arvo?

Arvo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 418,000; 8 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only: 1 in 216,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 289,591 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Arvo 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 2020 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 289,591 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arvo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arvos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arvo was born before 1918 — so the typical Arvo is around 107 today.

Median birth year: 1918; About 107 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 62.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 5.7%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 29; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 62.8% of all recorded uses (199).

Is Arvo 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (43)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #953; 1915

Spellings of Arvo

Arvo is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 32.4% against Arvo's 0.07%.

Mario32.4%151,310
Marco16.4%76,578
Arlo5.2%24,245
Aron4.6%21,235
Ari4.4%20,592
Aldo3.8%17,728
Carlo3.4%15,920
Dario2.6%11,945

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 Arvo is used

Across 1910–2025, Arvo was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 126,255 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Minnesota1 in 50,000
2Michigan1 in 100,000
3Massachusetts1 in —

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. Arvo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arvo around the world

Where Arvo 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.

England & Wales
2017–2020
#3,848
in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Arvo 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: #953; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 43 that year
First recorded: 1909
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 317
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Arvo

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

Arvik Arvie Arvis Arvle Arvell Arvid Arval Arvind Arvon Arvin Arvine Arvel Arvey Arvil Arvy Arvi Arville Arve Arven Arvol Arvill Arvaan Arvan Arvile

Sibling names for Arvo

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

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Hettie Catharine

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Hyman Regis

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