first name
JARVIS
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 11,958 people named Jarvis, 78.2% reported their origin as Black, 11.8% as White and 3.1% as two or more races. 99% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jarvis peaked in 1989, when 644 babies got the name.
At least 17,843 babies have been given the name since 1882. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jarvis by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #832. The largest share of babies named Jarvis, 41.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jarvis is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jarvis has been most common in Mississippi (6.7×), Georgia (5.2×), and Louisiana (4.2×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.05×).
13,613 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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Also a last name
As a last name, Jarvis ranks #1,017 of 156,621, with 33,745 people. See Jarvis as a last name
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