Orvis Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 3
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 13
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Orvis Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Orvis family

Profession Census Frequency
Female Servant 2
Male Servant 2
Gardener 1
Sawyer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Orvis

Name Census Frequency
Mary Orvis 24
James Orvis 17
Samuel Orvis 14
George Orvis 12
Eliza Orvis 11
Florence Orvis 11
Walter Orvis 10
William Orvis 10
Charles Orvis 9
Robert Orvis 9
Sarah Orvis 8
Arthur Orvis 7
Henry Orvis 7
Clara Orvis 6
Ellen Orvis 6
Agnes Orvis 5
Albert Orvis 5
Elizabeth Orvis 5
Emma Orvis 5
Frederick Orvis 5
Herbert Orvis 5
Algernon Orvis 4
Benjamin Orvis 4
Ernest Orvis 4
Gladys Orvis 4

Orvis Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Reeves 33% 83,464
2 Reaves 33% 3,502
3 Reves 40% 2,162
4 Revis 60% 767
5 Raves 40% 349
6 Orvis 100% 338
7 Reevs 20% 287
8 Reives 33% 204
9 Rives 40% 184
10 Rivis 60% 168
11 Iravis 67% 109
12 Ravis 60% 105

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The surname Orvis is the 6th most popular variant of Reeves.

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