Name meaning & stats
Jarvis
Jarvis means “spear” (Germanic origin). 16,579 US babies since 1940, peak 1989.
What it means
“spear”
GermanicWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1989
16,579 US babies were named Jarvis between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Jarvis (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1989)