How popular is the name Marva?

Marva ranks 1,382nd among girls' names in US records, with 10,369 births since 1913. Over the past decade it accounts for 20.

Is Marva a unisex name?

No. Marva is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1948, when 371 children were given the name. It has been in use for 111 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,382 of girl names

Pronounced M AA1 R V AH0 (ARPABET)

Marva is a girls' name, and first appears in 1913. It has been given to 10,369 children — the 1,382nd most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 20 births across the past decade, against a peak of 371 in a single year. That peak was in 1948.

1948Girls: 371Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Marva?: Marva ranks 1,382nd among girls' names in US records, with 10,369 births since 1913. Over the past decade it accounts for 20.
Is Marva a unisex name?: No. Marva is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Marva most popular?: 1948, when 371 children were given the name. It has been in use for 111 years and is still recorded as of 2024.