Arvo

Last seen for boys in 2020 at #8,739

Peak · boys
1915 · 43 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
317
since 1909

Arvo over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Arvo has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #952, 1915boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
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2020#8,7398
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2017#12,2465
2016#12,1855
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1961#4,0655
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1951#3,3646
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1936#3,5495
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1930#3,5926
1929
1928#4,1515
1927
1926#3,1398
1925
1924#3,8676
1923#2,61411
1922#2,48612
1921#2,37613
1920#1,88518
1919#1,44925
1918#1,64821
1917#1,29128
1916#1,33526
1915#95243
1914#1,26022
1913#1,44114
1912#1,7469
1911#1,03811
1910
1909#1,4405
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First appearance
1909

The first year at least five boys were named Arvo! It came in at #1,440, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1909–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Arvo
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2020
  • Biggest jump: 308 spots in 1915 (#1,260#952)
  • Biggest drop: 383 spots in 1916 (#952#1,335)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1909
  • Peaked 1915 at #952 (43 births)
  • Births halved by 1918, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1915
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,734
  • Highest: 1 in 19,734 boys born in 1915 were named Arvo (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 215,760 boys born in 2020 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 62.8% of all boys named Arvo (199) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#1,440 (1909)#1,440
1910s199#952 (1915)#1,351
1920s73#1,885 (1920)#2,931
1930s11#3,549 (1936)#3,571
1940s0
1950s6#3,364 (1951)#3,364
1960s5#4,065 (1961)#4,065
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s0
2010s10#12,185 (2016)#12,216
2020s8#8,739 (2020)#8,739

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Arvo in 1915

boys
#952
43 births · 1 in 19,734 boys

Top boys' names in 1915

  1. #1John47,576
  2. #2William38,563
  3. #3James33,773
  4. #4Robert28,737
  5. #5Joseph23,051
  6. #6George22,307
  7. #7Charles21,960
  8. #8Edward15,889
  9. #9Frank15,006
  10. #10Thomas11,490
  11. #952Arvo43
More about 1915

boys

848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 19,734 of them was named Arvo, which outranked 78.3% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arvo
  1. #941Pierre44
  2. #941Rayford44
  3. #941Yoshio44
  4. #952Arvo43
  5. #952Armond43
  6. #952Farris43
  7. #952Hilliard43
  8. #962Almon42
  9. #962Ansel42
  10. #962Bobbie42

Tied with 9 names at #952; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. 691Eston#1,687#996
  2. 565Estill#1,545#980
  3. 545Garth#1,260#715
  4. 474Hiroshi#1,342#868
  5. 439Domingo#1,101#662
Fallers
  1. 674Gilmore#986#1,660
  2. 667Barnett#933#1,600
  3. 526Rose#884#1,410
  4. 517Toivo#855#1,372
  5. 461Sampson#949#1,410

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1915