Meaning not yet researched.
Avayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #855 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #855 in 2021; #1,407 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Avayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,407 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #855.
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Avayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 girls in 2025. Peak: #855 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 321 (2022).
In 2025, 155 US girls were named Avayah, making it the 1,407th most common girls’ name of the year, down 287 places from #1,120 in 2024. That is 61 fewer than the 216 girls named Avayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #855, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 321, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,782 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Avayah in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 5 babies. In all, 2,223 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,569 babies named Avayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,847 US girls were named Avayah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 321. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,369 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Avayah ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #852 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Avah (7,046 babies since 1880) and Avaya (1,882 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Avaiyah, Avaiya and Avaeya 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: Avaiyah (173), Avaiya (134), Avaeya (64), Avaeyah (30), Avayiah (5).
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 Avayah 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #852 | — |
| California | 34 | #856 | #3,071 |
| Arizona | 6 | #930 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #975 | #1,023 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,064 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,069 | — |
| Texas | 20 | #1,275 | #3,332 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,297 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,419 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,475 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,559 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,563 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 2024 | 216 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2023 | 281 | #941 | — | — |
| 2022 | 321 | #866 | — | — |
| 2021 | 320 | #855 | — | — |
| 2020 | 276 | #936 | — | — |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,569 | — | — |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,577 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,918 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,156 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,589 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,780 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,828 | — | — |
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).