Meaning and history
Orville is a name invented by the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney, who may have meant it to suggest “golden city” in French. It is notably associated with Orville Wright (1871–1948), who, along with his brother Wilbur, invented the first successful airplane.
20062006: 14 births, rank #5,781
2007: 9 births, rank #8,173
2008: 16 births, rank #5,487
2009: 13 births, rank #6,436
2010: 6 births, rank #10,766
20112011: 9 births, rank #8,079
2012: 7 births, rank #9,709
2013: 13 births, rank #6,241
2014: 17 births, rank #5,252
2015: 12 births, rank #6,676
20162016: 13 births, rank #6,349
2017: 19 births, rank #4,935
2018: 11 births, rank #7,136
2019: 17 births, rank #5,340
2020: 12 births, rank #6,620
20212021: 16 births, rank #5,562
2022: 13 births, rank #6,479
2023: 12 births, rank #6,897
2024: 12 births, rank #6,832
20252025: 14 births, rank #6,143
Orville moved from #938 to #980 for boys between 1972 and 1975. Its highest annual birth count came in 1920, with 1,195 births.