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Orville
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Origin and Meaning
Fantasy name
Invented as a surname by the English novellist Fanny Burney for the hero, Lord Orville, of her novel Evelina (1778). She perhaps intended it to mean 'golden city' in French. [1] [2]
Related Names
| Orville | ♂ |   |
  
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Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Orville |
| Genitive: | Orvilles |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Orville |
| Genitive: | Orvilles |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Orville |
| Genitive: | Orvilles |
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[3] |
|
4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 |
 Iceland[4] |
  |
2 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Denmark[5] |
 |
2 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
2 | n.a. |
 Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
4 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
4 |
| Norway[7] |
|
4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
 Greenland[8] |
  |
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Orville.
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/