Arvilla
Feminine
Arvilla borrows its ending from three Latin names and its front from none of them. Priscilla, Camilla and Drusilla were all in ordinary English use in the nineteenth century, all genuinely Latin, and all of them supplied a shape that American families then fitted new material into.
How old is the name Arvilla?
Arvilla was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Arvilla alive today was born around 1922, making them about 103 years old. About 400 people named Arvilla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Arvilla most popular?
Arvilla peaked in 1881, reaching #434 nationally. See the whole 1881 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Arvilla
The Latin names ending this way share a real grammatical feature: the ending is a diminutive, and in Priscilla it is doing exactly that, making a smaller form of an existing family name. English speakers borrowed the finished names without the grammar and then read the ending as decorative, at which point it became available for anything. Arvilla, Orvilla, Lavilla and Ardilla all appear in the American record from the earliest years, all of them built rather than descended, all of them looking like classical names and none of them being one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No meaning attaches. The ending is Latin in the names it was copied from and carries nothing here; the front is not a word in any language, though it may be a clipping of Arvid or Orville.
Pronouncing Arvilla
ar-VIL-uh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. The first is reduced, which is why Arvilla and Orvilla are hard to tell apart in speech.
Nicknames for Arvilla
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 192496 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #434reached in 1881
- Change vs 1966
- +33.3%8 in 1968, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Arvillas among us
people named Arvilla are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Arvilla sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Every sound in it is straightforward and the spelling follows the sound.
- The stress in the middle gives it a lift most English names of its length do not have.
- It has an unbroken run in American records from the first year they were kept.
- Orvilla, Arvella and Arvilla are near neighbors and will be confused.
- There is no meaning or older history to pass on.
- It reads unmistakably as a name of the nineteenth century.
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- How many Arvillas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Arvilla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Arvilla in 2025?
- Arvilla is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Arvilla will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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