Meaning not yet researched.
Avah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 150 in 2025. Its best rank was #463 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #463 in 2018; #1,436 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Avah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,436 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #463.
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Avah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 150 girls in 2025. Peak: #463 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 679 (2018).
In 2025, 150 US girls were named Avah, making it the 1,436th most common girls’ name of the year, down 240 places from #1,196 in 2024. That is 48 fewer than the 198 girls named Avah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #463, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 679. For comparison, it was #656 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Avah in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 7 babies. In all, 7,046 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,176 babies named Avah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,697 US girls were named Avah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 679. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,715 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Avah ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #739 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ava (344,441 babies since 1880), Ayva (3,823 babies since 1880), Avayah (2,223 babies since 1880) and Avaya (1,882 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Avaiah, Ahavah and Avaeah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Avaiah (215), Ahavah (104), Avaeah (42).
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 Avah 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 7 | #739 | #857 |
| Ohio | 12 | #750 | #480 |
| Alabama | 5 | #833 | #559 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,083 | #343 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,178 | #670 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,296 | #397 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,386 | #562 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,417 | #551 |
| California | 14 | #1,590 | #953 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,052 | #662 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 150 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 2024 | 198 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 2023 | 234 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 2022 | 288 | #941 | — | — |
| 2021 | 338 | #822 | — | — |
| 2020 | 438 | #658 | — | — |
| 2019 | 444 | #659 | — | — |
| 2018 | 679 | #463 | — | — |
| 2017 | 522 | #579 | — | — |
| 2016 | 406 | #706 | — | — |
| 2015 | 438 | #656 | — | — |
| 2014 | 398 | #707 | — | — |
| 2013 | 346 | #788 | — | — |
| 2012 | 329 | #815 | — | — |
| 2011 | 294 | #887 | — | — |
| 2010 | 320 | #839 | — | — |
| 2009 | 289 | #924 | — | — |
| 2008 | 274 | #978 | — | — |
| 2007 | 233 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 2006 | 170 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,362 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,209 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,618 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,294 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,400 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,011 | — | — |
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).