Given name & surname
Arva
“from the sea; one who is fertile”
Arva is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “from the sea; one who is fertile.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “from the sea; one who is fertile.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arva through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 552
- 0 boys · 552 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1973. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 24 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 315 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 88,362 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Arva’s family of names
Arva has a related form in Arvah. Arva has a related form in Arvia. Arva has a related form in Arvya.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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