Meaning not yet researched.
Avaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 162 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,359 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Avaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,359 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Avaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 162 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,359 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 162 (2025).
In 2025, 162 US girls were named Avaya, making it the 1,359th most common girls’ name of the year, up 138 places from #1,497 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 145 girls named Avaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,359, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 162. For comparison, it was #2,173 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Avaya in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 5 babies. In all, 1,882 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 848 babies named Avaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,248 US girls were named Avaya; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 162. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,921 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Avaya ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #715 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), Avah (7,046 babies since 1880) and Avayah (2,223 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Avaya 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #715 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,000 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,029 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,068 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,154 | #1,301 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,204 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,282 | #2,183 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,339 | #1,503 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,466 | #2,393 |
| New York | 6 | #1,863 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 2024 | 145 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 2023 | 138 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2022 | 159 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 2015 | 87 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,049 | — | — |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,281 | — | — |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,283 | — | — |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,795 | — | — |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,104 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,567 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,448 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,086 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,361 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,653 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,329 | — | — |
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).