Meaning not yet researched.
Avett: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,902 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,902 in 2018; #3,767 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Avett in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,767 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,902.
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Avett: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,902 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 78 (2018).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Avett, making it the 3,767th most common boys’ name of the year, up 38 places from #3,805 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 29 boys named Avett in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,902, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #2,491 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Avett in 17 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2009 with 6 babies. In all, 824 US babies have been given the name, 6.6% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 531 babies named Avett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 544 US boys were named Avett; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Avet are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Avet (38).
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 Avett in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 29 | #3,767 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,805 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,010 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,828 | 66 | #2,192 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,277 | 52 | #2,526 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,423 | 65 | #2,141 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,628 | 73 | #2,003 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,552 | 78 | #1,902 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,798 | 65 | #2,112 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,600 | 60 | #2,233 |
| 2015 | — | — | 50 | #2,491 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,265 | 64 | #2,140 |
| 2013 | — | — | 49 | #2,493 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,118 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,054 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,635 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #11,136 |
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).