Given name & surname
Arvo
“value”·“precious”
Arvo is a masculine given name. It is used in Finnish and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Arvo is built from elements meaning “value” and “precious”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arvo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 317
- 317 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 43 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 boys is 8 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 43 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 114 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Arvo’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Arvo has a diminutive in Arska. In Finnish usage, Arvo shares a linguistic root with the Swedish form Arvid. In Finnish usage, Arvo has a related form in ARVI.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arvo
- Arvo PärtEstonian composer (born 1935)
- Arvo ValtonEstonian writer (1935–2024)
- Arvo Askolaathletics competitor (1909-1975)
- Arvo AaltonenFinnish swimmer1892–1949
- Arvo HaavistoFinnish Olympic wrestler (1900-1977)
- Arvo YlppöFinnish physician, professor and archiater (1887-1992)
- Arvo Viitanencross-country skier1924–1999
- Arvo LindénFinnish wrestler1887–1941
- Arvo AaltoFinnish politician (1932–2025)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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