Meaning not yet researched.
Avi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 297 in 2025. Its best rank was #720 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #720 in 2022; #832 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Avi in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#832 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #720.
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Avi: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 297 boys in 2025. Peak: #720 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 366 (2022).
In 2025, 297 US boys were named Avi, making it the 832nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 10 places from #842 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 290 boys named Avi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #720, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 366. For comparison, it was #939 in 2015 and #3,049 in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Avi, making it the 6,880th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,966 places from #4,914 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 27 girls named Avi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,865, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 59. For comparison, it was #4,000 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Avi in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 6,921 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,295 babies named Avi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,717 US boys were named Avi; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 366. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,751 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Avi ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #336 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Avie (1,774 babies since 1880) and Avia (1,948 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ave, Avram and Avy are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Ave (939), Avram (937), Avy (477), Aviah (465), Aviya (422), Aivy (343), Avea (261), Avya (237), Avey (173), Aavi (44), Avee (28), Ayvia (23), 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 Avi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 25 | #336 | #437 |
| Washington | 18 | #405 | #703 |
| New York | 32 | #504 | #467 |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #527 | #753 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #572 | — |
| Arizona | 11 | #595 | — |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #626 | #633 |
| Florida | 24 | #665 | #1,282 |
| Maryland | 6 | #712 | #643 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #721 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #754 | #616 |
| California | 33 | #777 | #825 |
| Michigan | 8 | #833 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #977 | #1,455 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,101 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,122 | #652 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,225 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,880 | 297 | #832 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,914 | 290 | #842 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,433 | 349 | #747 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,865 | 366 | #720 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,625 | 313 | #786 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,226 | 244 | #916 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,023 | 196 | #1,048 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,251 | 230 | #924 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,782 | 212 | #974 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,266 | 220 | #947 |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,000 | 224 | #939 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,278 | 187 | #1,057 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,160 | 184 | #1,043 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,058 | 179 | #1,060 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,011 | 165 | #1,116 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,897 | 129 | #1,323 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,282 | 136 | #1,290 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,908 | 139 | #1,252 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,579 | 144 | #1,223 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,734 | 126 | #1,309 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,568 | 108 | #1,381 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,775 | 106 | #1,368 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,635 | 92 | #1,430 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,482 | 95 | #1,385 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,135 | 84 | #1,460 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,251 | 90 | #1,391 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,883 | 59 | #1,734 |
| 1998 | — | — | 48 | #1,989 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #1,992 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,997 | 44 | #1,988 |
| 1995 | — | — | 33 | #2,352 |
| 1994 | — | — | 48 | #1,796 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,213 |
| 1992 | — | — | 36 | #2,131 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #1,984 |
| 1990 | — | — | 38 | #1,972 |
| 1989 | — | — | 42 | #1,794 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,710 |
| 1987 | — | — | 40 | #1,687 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,061 | 27 | #2,099 |
| 1985 | — | — | 42 | #1,548 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,102 |
| 1983 | — | — | 42 | #1,473 |
| 1982 | — | — | 31 | #1,817 |
| 1981 | — | — | 32 | #1,768 |
| 1980 | — | — | 32 | #1,767 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,339 | 31 | #1,790 |
| 1978 | — | — | 36 | #1,571 |
| 1977 | — | — | 44 | #1,370 |
| 1976 | — | — | 27 | #1,831 |
| 1975 | — | — | 31 | #1,633 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,131 |
| 1973 | — | — | 34 | #1,465 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,546 |
| 1971 | — | — | 19 | #2,132 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,518 |
| 1969 | — | — | 16 | #2,136 |
| 1968 | — | — | 13 | #2,323 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,621 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,003 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,002 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,629 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,674 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,083 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,115 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,051 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,049 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,585 |
| 1956 | — | — | 13 | #2,273 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,192 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,049 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,722 |
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).