THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Orville
Orville appears in 3 eligible records in the OpenHalalan transcription of COMELEC’s 2001 elected-candidate lists. The recorded spelling is kept separate from other spellings. This documents a source-reported name form, not a lexical meaning, a birth count, or a national popularity rank.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
Invented by Fanny Burney for the hero of her novel Evelina. It has been suggested that it is based on the very old Welsh forename of Eurfyl, meaning 'gold'.
A male given name originating as a coinage.
Wiktionary: Orville (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
3
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Orville in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Orville
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Herville·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Arielle♀Etymology uncertain; see source accounts
- Camille♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Cecille·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Cyrille♂Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Lucille♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Orlie·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Orvi·Recorded Philippine given-name form
What rhymes with Orville?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Orville further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Orville (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.