Arville
Masculine
Arville is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 758 boys against 11 girls since 1880.
Arville is recorded for boys and girls alike and ends in a syllable that covers the map of France and much of America. That syllable did not originally mean a town at all.
How old is the name Arville?
Arville first appears in US birth records in 1907 — 118 years ago. The typical Arville alive today was born around 1930, making them about 95 years old. About 200 people named Arville are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Arville most popular?
Arville peaked in 1941, reaching #1333 nationally. See the whole 1941 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Arville
Latin villa was a country estate: a working farm with a house on it. As Latin turned into French the word narrowed to the farm and then broadened to the settlement that grew around it, and by the time it was being attached to place names in quantity it meant something like a village or a town. France has thousands. America then imported the ending on its own and used it for new towns everywhere, which is why the country is full of places whose names end in it that have no French connection whatever. The word therefore ran from one rich man's farm to an American county seat in about fifteen hundred years without ever quite stopping.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The ending is the French one meaning a settlement; the front is not securely identified. The American first name is not documented and may be a build using the ending as a free element.
Pronouncing Arville
AR-vil
Two syllables with the stress in front. ar-VEEL, the French reading, is occasionally heard.
Nicknames for Arville
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
- 1907
- Most boys named
- 192329 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1333reached in 1941
- Change vs 1971
- +20.0%6 in 1977, from 5
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.
Arvilles among us
people named Arville 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
Arville 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
- It is read correctly at first sight by nearly everybody.
- Arv comes off the front as a short form and works for either sex.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- The spelling is recorded for a few girls, but nearly every child with it is a boy.
- It reads as a place name to most listeners, which suits some families and not others.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing settled to answer with.
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Frequently asked
- How many Arvilles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Arville are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Arville in 2025?
- Arville is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Arville with classmates?
- Arville will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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