Ovila
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ovila has been given to 240 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1916, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Ovila, 1943
1 in 564,000
Ovila over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ovila?
Ovila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1943
- 1 in 564,000
- 5 of 2,822,499 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1943
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,283 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ovila sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1943 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,283 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ovila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ovilas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ovila was born before 1919 — so the typical Ovila is around 106 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 45.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (109).
Is Ovila 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 1916 (17)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.1% average annual change
Spellings of Ovila
Ovila is not the most common spelling — Orvil is, with 42.4% against Ovila's 5.3%.
Where Ovila is used
Across 1910–2025, Ovila was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 67,904 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Rhode Island1 in 33,333
- 2Massachusetts1 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. Ovila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ovila around the world
Where Ovila 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.
- France1993–1998#4,042in 1998
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Ovila by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ovila
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ovila
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.