Ovila

Last seen for boys in 1943 at #3,538

Peak · boys
1895 · 7 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
240
since 1895

Ovila over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ovila has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201899peak #872, 1895boys
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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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1943#3,5385
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1935#3,2526
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1931#3,0957
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1929#3,5596
1928#3,0768
1927#2,70310
1926#2,72510
1925#2,75510
1924#3,2608
1923#3,4677
1922#2,80110
1921#3,2148
1920#2,9679
1919#2,66510
1918#1,90517
1917#3,2177
1916#1,77117
1915#1,96814
1914#1,86812
1913#1,49713
1912#1,8858
1911#1,03811
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1899#9286
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1897#1,0575
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1895#8727
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First appearance
1895

The first year at least five boys were named Ovila! It came in at #872, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1896–1898, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Ovila
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1943
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1895
  • Peaked 1895 at #872 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1896, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1895–1899
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,770
  • Highest: 1 in 16,770 boys born in 1895 were named Ovila (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 285,459 boys born in 1943 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 45.4% of all boys named Ovila (109) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s18#872 (1895)#952
1900s0
1910s109#1,038 (1911)#1,979
1920s86#2,703 (1927)#3,053
1930s22#2,542 (1933)#2,963
1940s5#3,538 (1943)#3,538

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.

Ovila in 1899

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#928
6 births · 1 in 17,702 boys

Top boys' names in 1899

  1. #1John6,990
  2. #2William6,086
  3. #3James4,597
  4. #4George4,018
  5. #5Charles3,147
  6. #6Joseph2,679
  7. #7Robert2,609
  8. #8Frank2,550
  9. #9Edward1,901
  10. #10Henry1,831
  11. #928Ovila6
More about 1899

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106,211 boys got a published name in 1899; 1 in 17,702 of them was named Ovila, which outranked 22.7% of the 1,200 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ovila
  1. #857Vaughn7
  2. #857Vic7
  3. #857Viola7
  4. #928Ovila6
  5. #928Alberto6
  6. #928Alcide6
  7. #928Alferd6
  8. #1,051Ace5
  9. #1,051Acy5
  10. #1,051Adelard5

Tied with 122 names at #928; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1898
Risers
  1. 640Rogers#1,121#481
  2. 600Edna#1,121#521
  3. 545Giles#1,002#457
  4. 508Sarah#1,121#613
  5. 461Thaddeus#885#424
Fallers
  1. 566Jason#485#1,051
  2. 564Fitzhugh#364#928
  3. 508Oran#543#1,051
  4. 493Wilber#435#928
  5. 443Hosea#485#928

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

See the top 100 for 1899