How Many People Are Named Arvel?
people named Arvel are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 679,492 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,202 babies named Arvel in Social Security records from 1894 to 2006, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
77 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Meaning unknown, possibly a variant of ARWEL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Arvel in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Arvel alive today is about 68 years old, and 71% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 57 and 80 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Arvel first appears in the records in 1894 and was given most often in 1921, to 77 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2006.
Babies given the name each year, 1894 to 2006
🏆 Rank History
Arvel has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #688, in 1902.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #688 (1902) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #886 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Arvel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Arvel were born in Kentucky than in any other state: about 14 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Arvel was given 9.9 times as often in Kentucky, 6.7 times in Arkansas and 6.7 times in Oklahoma.
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