Purvis · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Purvis.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1900

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 81 recorded years as a table

Purvis, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1900	33
1905	53
1910	31
1911	22
1912	12
1913	10
1914	11
1915	21
1916	21
1917	14
1918	17
1919	13
1920	18
1921	25
1922	17
1923	18
1924	22
1925	9
1926	17
1927	17
1928	13
1929	12
1930	11
1931	13
1932	11
1933	17
1934	14
1935	19
1936	15
1937	14
1938	13
1939	16
1940	14
1941	12
1942	10
1943	11
1944	9
1945	8
1946	10
1947	7
1948	11
1949	7
1950	4
1951	7
1952	4
1953	5
1954	6
1955	7
1956	6
1957	6
1958	3
1959	7
1960	6
1961	6
1962	5
1963	7
1964	6
1965	9
1966	5
1967	5
1968	4
1969	7
1970	8
1971	7
1972	4
1973	4
1974	4
1975	4
1976	3
1977	3
1978	7
1980	6
1981	4
1983	4
1985	3
1986	4
1989	2
1990	3
1991	3
1993	4
1996	4

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Purvis isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1996: 7
Rank in 1996: #7,136
How rare: 1 in 270,614 boys
Since 1900: 969

Purvis was last recorded in 1996. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1905, at 53 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Purvis doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.