# Orval (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/orval/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,928 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,916 / 12 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 5 | 5,391 |
| 1929 | 7 | 3,965 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | 4,657 |
| 1976 | 12 | 3,210 |
| 1977 | 8 | 4,470 |
| 1978 | 7 | 4,906 |
| 1979 | 8 | 4,725 |
| 1980 | 7 | 5,347 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,996 |
| 1983 | 5 | 7,010 |
| 1984 | 5 | 7,035 |
| 1985 | 7 | 5,586 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,727 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,976 |
| 1992 | 6 | 8,177 |
| 1993 | 5 | 9,766 |
| 1995 | 7 | 7,578 |

## People named Orval

- Orval Faubus, 36th governor of Arkansas (1910-1994)
- Orval H. Hansen, American politician (1926-2017)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.