Meaning not yet researched.
Ava: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7,732 in 2025. Its best rank was #3 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3 in 2020; #11 in 2025. About 99.9% of babies named Ava in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #3.
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Ava: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7,732 girls in 2025. Peak: #3 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 18,053 (2007).
In 2025, 7,732 US girls were named Ava, making it the 11th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2 places from #9 in 2024. That is 968 fewer than the 8,700 girls named Ava in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 18,053, in 2007. For comparison, it was #4 in 2015 and #469 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ava in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 344,441 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 156,018 babies named Ava.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 125,304 US girls were named Ava; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16,354. In 2025 that was about 1 in 208 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ava ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #2 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 51 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Eva (285,768 babies since 1880), Avah (7,046 babies since 1880), Ayva (3,823 babies since 1880) and Ahuva (1,922 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Awa, Aeva and Ahava are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Awa (871), Aeva (573), Ahava (438), Aivah (322), Aava (180), Avaeh (152), Avaia (149), Avaa (95), Aevah (80), Aavah (70), Avita (55), Ahva (25), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ava in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 100 | #2 | #1 |
| Rhode Island | 34 | #5 | #4 |
| South Carolina | 148 | #7 | #1 |
| Vermont | 17 | #7 | #2 |
| District of Columbia | 29 | #7 | #2 |
| Hawaii | 29 | #7 | #5 |
| Georgia | 301 | #7 | #1 |
| Alabama | 143 | #8 | #1 |
| Delaware | 27 | #9 | #1 |
| Pennsylvania | 314 | #9 | #3 |
| New Jersey | 286 | #10 | #6 |
| West Virginia | 52 | #10 | #2 |
| Virginia | 244 | #10 | #3 |
| North Carolina | 313 | #11 | #1 |
| Montana | 29 | #12 | #4 |
| Michigan | 231 | #12 | #2 |
| Wisconsin | 147 | #12 | #3 |
| New York | 458 | #12 | #6 |
| Ohio | 281 | #13 | #2 |
| Maryland | 125 | #13 | #3 |
| Arkansas | 69 | #13 | #3 |
| Iowa | 86 | #13 | #6 |
| Kentucky | 123 | #13 | #3 |
| Louisiana | 98 | #13 | #1 |
| Missouri | 148 | #14 | #3 |
| Connecticut | 82 | #14 | #5 |
| Florida | 476 | #15 | #6 |
| Washington | 171 | #15 | #4 |
| Minnesota | 134 | #15 | #4 |
| Nevada | 63 | #16 | #7 |
| Idaho | 51 | #16 | #4 |
| Massachusetts | 167 | #16 | #6 |
| Nebraska | 49 | #17 | #5 |
| Illinois | 240 | #17 | #6 |
| Tennessee | 178 | #19 | #2 |
| Indiana | 149 | #19 | #3 |
| New Hampshire | 34 | #20 | #5 |
| Oregon | 72 | #22 | #7 |
| Colorado | 128 | #22 | #7 |
| Oklahoma | 79 | #22 | #3 |
| Utah | 97 | #23 | #6 |
| Arizona | 142 | #23 | #8 |
| New Mexico | 30 | #23 | #4 |
| Texas | 675 | #23 | #7 |
| South Dakota | 21 | #25 | #4 |
| California | 742 | #26 | #10 |
| North Dakota | 20 | #26 | #1 |
| Alaska | 15 | #27 | #4 |
| Kansas | 58 | #30 | #3 |
| Wyoming | 8 | #31 | #5 |
| Maine | 19 | #39 | #6 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7,732 | #11 | 7 | #9,807 |
| 2024 | 8,700 | #9 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9,737 | #8 | 6 | #10,966 |
| 2022 | 11,107 | #7 | 9 | #8,387 |
| 2021 | 12,873 | #5 | 8 | #8,912 |
| 2020 | 13,201 | #3 | 11 | #7,081 |
| 2019 | 14,549 | #3 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15,034 | #3 | 10 | #7,672 |
| 2017 | 16,017 | #3 | 13 | #6,358 |
| 2016 | 16,354 | #3 | 11 | #7,189 |
| 2015 | 16,416 | #4 | 19 | #4,906 |
| 2014 | 15,727 | #5 | 15 | #5,756 |
| 2013 | 15,271 | #5 | 17 | #5,182 |
| 2012 | 15,549 | #5 | 20 | #4,705 |
| 2011 | 15,518 | #5 | 17 | #5,219 |
| 2010 | 15,444 | #5 | 17 | #5,269 |
| 2009 | 15,877 | #5 | 23 | #4,291 |
| 2008 | 17,051 | #5 | 16 | #5,510 |
| 2007 | 18,053 | #4 | 12 | #6,659 |
| 2006 | 16,941 | #5 | 24 | #4,006 |
| 2005 | 13,606 | #9 | 29 | #3,393 |
| 2004 | 8,645 | #25 | 35 | #2,895 |
| 2003 | 6,280 | #39 | 9 | #7,294 |
| 2002 | 3,751 | #82 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,539 | #132 | 5 | #10,712 |
| 2000 | 1,796 | #180 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,215 | #259 | — | — |
| 1998 | 831 | #350 | — | — |
| 1997 | 362 | #618 | — | — |
| 1996 | 285 | #740 | — | — |
| 1995 | 279 | #734 | — | — |
| 1994 | 276 | #752 | — | — |
| 1993 | 286 | #734 | — | — |
| 1992 | 239 | #835 | — | — |
| 1991 | 236 | #847 | — | — |
| 1990 | 198 | #950 | — | — |
| 1989 | 175 | #986 | — | — |
| 1988 | 167 | #986 | — | — |
| 1987 | 176 | #932 | — | — |
| 1986 | 166 | #951 | — | — |
| 1985 | 134 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1984 | 146 | #988 | — | — |
| 1983 | 107 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1982 | 109 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1981 | 123 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1980 | 113 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1979 | 132 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1978 | 132 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1977 | 103 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1975 | 127 | #973 | — | — |
| 1974 | 130 | #950 | — | — |
| 1973 | 108 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1972 | 153 | #849 | — | — |
| 1971 | 161 | #849 | — | — |
| 1970 | 177 | #789 | — | — |
| 1969 | 170 | #788 | — | — |
| 1968 | 177 | #744 | — | — |
| 1967 | 176 | #736 | — | — |
| 1966 | 199 | #695 | — | — |
| 1965 | 227 | #649 | — | — |
| 1964 | 268 | #610 | — | — |
| 1963 | 273 | #604 | — | — |
| 1962 | 263 | #618 | — | — |
| 1961 | 262 | #631 | — | — |
| 1960 | 327 | #532 | — | — |
| 1959 | 337 | #528 | — | — |
| 1958 | 378 | #492 | — | — |
| 1957 | 432 | #455 | — | — |
| 1956 | 509 | #401 | — | — |
| 1955 | 508 | #388 | — | — |
| 1954 | 540 | #376 | — | — |
| 1953 | 462 | #394 | — | — |
| 1952 | 388 | #435 | — | — |
| 1951 | 384 | #426 | — | — |
| 1950 | 299 | #469 | — | — |
| 1949 | 240 | #534 | — | — |
| 1948 | 197 | #593 | — | — |
| 1947 | 199 | #604 | — | — |
| 1946 | 131 | #704 | — | — |
| 1945 | 80 | #842 | — | — |
| 1944 | 91 | #801 | — | — |
| 1943 | 109 | #742 | — | — |
| 1942 | 132 | #649 | — | — |
| 1941 | 89 | #757 | — | — |
| 1940 | 78 | #802 | — | — |
| 1939 | 90 | #717 | — | — |
| 1938 | 83 | #764 | — | — |
| 1937 | 114 | #634 | — | — |
| 1936 | 113 | #620 | — | — |
| 1935 | 109 | #621 | — | — |
| 1934 | 129 | #564 | — | — |
| 1933 | 119 | #592 | — | — |
| 1932 | 145 | #541 | — | — |
| 1931 | 136 | #561 | — | — |
| 1930 | 142 | #571 | — | — |
| 1929 | 135 | #588 | — | — |
| 1928 | 135 | #605 | 5 | #4,198 |
| 1927 | 141 | #599 | 6 | #3,808 |
| 1926 | 164 | #547 | — | — |
| 1925 | 164 | #560 | — | — |
| 1924 | 157 | #587 | — | — |
| 1923 | 173 | #546 | — | — |
| 1922 | 160 | #567 | — | — |
| 1921 | 177 | #537 | — | — |
| 1920 | 184 | #515 | — | — |
| 1919 | 159 | #547 | — | — |
| 1918 | 174 | #529 | — | — |
| 1917 | 180 | #492 | — | — |
| 1916 | 186 | #467 | — | — |
| 1915 | 171 | #471 | — | — |
| 1914 | 156 | #434 | — | — |
| 1913 | 112 | #478 | — | — |
| 1912 | 98 | #483 | — | — |
| 1911 | 86 | #438 | — | — |
| 1910 | 79 | #451 | — | — |
| 1909 | 49 | #543 | — | — |
| 1908 | 58 | #474 | — | — |
| 1907 | 55 | #481 | — | — |
| 1906 | 62 | #437 | — | — |
| 1905 | 53 | #464 | — | — |
| 1904 | 50 | #463 | — | — |
| 1903 | 55 | #429 | — | — |
| 1902 | 40 | #502 | — | — |
| 1901 | 46 | #435 | — | — |
| 1900 | 65 | #418 | — | — |
| 1899 | 44 | #438 | — | — |
| 1898 | 53 | #423 | — | — |
| 1897 | 42 | #453 | — | — |
| 1896 | 38 | #467 | — | — |
| 1895 | 54 | #379 | — | — |
| 1894 | 58 | #367 | — | — |
| 1893 | 46 | #394 | — | — |
| 1892 | 54 | #360 | — | — |
| 1891 | 41 | #388 | — | — |
| 1890 | 49 | #362 | — | — |
| 1889 | 44 | #362 | — | — |
| 1888 | 41 | #375 | — | — |
| 1887 | 36 | #360 | — | — |
| 1886 | 27 | #418 | — | — |
| 1885 | 18 | #503 | — | — |
| 1884 | 32 | #350 | — | — |
| 1883 | 29 | #331 | — | — |
| 1882 | 21 | #390 | — | — |
| 1881 | 18 | #394 | — | — |
| 1880 | 13 | #468 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).