Meaning not yet researched.
Avis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #238 in 1912.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #238 in 1912; #13,417 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Avis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,417 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1912, at #238.
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Avis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #238 in 1912 · most girls in one year: 438 (1920).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Avis, making it the 13,417th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,399 places from #9,018 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 11 girls named Avis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #238, reached in 1912. The most girls given the name in a single year was 438, in 1920. For comparison, it was #8,062 in 2015 and #703 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Avis in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 14 babies. In all, 18,042 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 4.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,074 babies named Avis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 112 US girls were named Avis; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Avie (1,774 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Avish, Avash and Aavish 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: Avish (138), Avash (18), Aavish (11), Aves (7).
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 Avis 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 | 6 | #13,417 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,018 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,116 | 5 | #12,436 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,606 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,542 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,473 | 7 | #9,662 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,505 | 5 | #12,338 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,153 | 11 | #7,172 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,900 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,938 | 9 | #8,212 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,062 | 6 | #10,803 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,104 | 11 | #7,113 |
| 2013 | — | — | 6 | #10,872 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,547 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,589 | 5 | #12,674 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,563 | 5 | #12,728 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,628 | 6 | #11,055 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,401 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,969 | 6 | #10,250 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,762 | 5 | #11,526 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,588 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,364 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,237 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,994 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,538 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,064 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,414 | 6 | #8,218 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,221 | 6 | #8,042 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,702 | 6 | #7,881 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,719 | 9 | #5,903 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,985 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,748 | 7 | #6,727 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,346 | 10 | #5,126 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,015 | 5 | #8,218 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,682 | 10 | #4,841 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,593 | 8 | #5,237 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,664 | 10 | #4,265 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,138 | 12 | #3,668 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,550 | 6 | #5,837 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,237 | 8 | #4,586 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,433 | 11 | #3,644 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,119 | 16 | #2,846 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,662 | 11 | #3,623 |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,251 | 8 | #4,530 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,249 | 13 | #3,186 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,014 | 12 | #3,229 |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,610 | 9 | #3,860 |
| 1976 | 68 | #1,514 | 7 | #4,467 |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,991 | 10 | #3,451 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,801 | 9 | #3,582 |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,668 | 11 | #3,030 |
| 1972 | 62 | #1,516 | 8 | #3,652 |
| 1971 | 74 | #1,415 | 8 | #3,689 |
| 1970 | 86 | #1,271 | 8 | #3,545 |
| 1969 | 74 | #1,318 | 10 | #2,880 |
| 1968 | 75 | #1,267 | 12 | #2,454 |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1966 | 127 | #890 | 13 | #2,225 |
| 1965 | 120 | #922 | 10 | #2,632 |
| 1964 | 169 | #804 | 8 | #3,064 |
| 1963 | 182 | #763 | 5 | #4,078 |
| 1962 | 219 | #695 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 1961 | 218 | #707 | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1960 | 217 | #689 | 7 | #3,363 |
| 1959 | 216 | #683 | — | — |
| 1958 | 239 | #636 | — | — |
| 1957 | 255 | #611 | — | — |
| 1956 | 287 | #553 | 7 | #3,238 |
| 1955 | 239 | #596 | — | — |
| 1954 | 225 | #604 | 5 | #3,862 |
| 1953 | 215 | #606 | 9 | #2,720 |
| 1952 | 204 | #610 | 12 | #2,258 |
| 1951 | 169 | #676 | — | — |
| 1950 | 149 | #703 | — | — |
| 1949 | 129 | #757 | 9 | #2,622 |
| 1948 | 128 | #754 | 5 | #3,715 |
| 1947 | 157 | #672 | 6 | #3,393 |
| 1946 | 180 | #593 | 6 | #3,199 |
| 1945 | 122 | #668 | 5 | #3,366 |
| 1944 | 128 | #655 | 5 | #3,458 |
| 1943 | 119 | #699 | 8 | #2,753 |
| 1942 | 175 | #560 | 14 | #1,954 |
| 1941 | 156 | #560 | 10 | #2,340 |
| 1940 | 193 | #498 | 10 | #2,335 |
| 1939 | 181 | #495 | 9 | #2,464 |
| 1938 | 215 | #459 | 6 | #3,199 |
| 1937 | 215 | #449 | 7 | #2,931 |
| 1936 | 231 | #426 | 9 | #2,465 |
| 1935 | 250 | #411 | 5 | #3,682 |
| 1934 | 263 | #402 | 8 | #2,757 |
| 1933 | 261 | #397 | 6 | #3,303 |
| 1932 | 270 | #396 | 14 | #2,007 |
| 1931 | 273 | #396 | 8 | #2,880 |
| 1930 | 294 | #396 | 14 | #2,086 |
| 1929 | 330 | #370 | 12 | #2,324 |
| 1928 | 387 | #342 | 10 | #2,676 |
| 1927 | 375 | #347 | 12 | #2,419 |
| 1926 | 386 | #337 | 15 | #2,081 |
| 1925 | 395 | #337 | 9 | #2,949 |
| 1924 | 430 | #323 | 13 | #2,356 |
| 1923 | 418 | #316 | 14 | #2,234 |
| 1922 | 386 | #332 | 16 | #2,048 |
| 1921 | 397 | #330 | 17 | #1,986 |
| 1920 | 438 | #312 | 14 | #2,232 |
| 1919 | 348 | #343 | 12 | #2,393 |
| 1918 | 429 | #308 | 5 | #4,226 |
| 1917 | 371 | #317 | 15 | #1,997 |
| 1916 | 391 | #303 | 5 | #3,946 |
| 1915 | 366 | #306 | 14 | #1,978 |
| 1914 | 293 | #304 | 6 | #2,947 |
| 1913 | 301 | #268 | 11 | #1,684 |
| 1912 | 358 | #238 | 6 | #2,294 |
| 1911 | 152 | #318 | — | — |
| 1910 | 82 | #440 | — | — |
| 1909 | 78 | #413 | — | — |
| 1908 | 62 | #457 | — | — |
| 1907 | 89 | #372 | — | — |
| 1906 | 66 | #421 | — | — |
| 1905 | 78 | #383 | — | — |
| 1904 | 83 | #360 | — | — |
| 1903 | 48 | #461 | — | — |
| 1902 | 61 | #398 | — | — |
| 1901 | 39 | #483 | — | — |
| 1900 | 57 | #440 | — | — |
| 1899 | 43 | #443 | — | — |
| 1898 | 40 | #486 | — | — |
| 1897 | 42 | #454 | — | — |
| 1896 | 41 | #453 | — | — |
| 1895 | 38 | #471 | — | — |
| 1894 | 44 | #418 | — | — |
| 1893 | 35 | #449 | — | — |
| 1892 | 44 | #401 | — | — |
| 1891 | 32 | #448 | — | — |
| 1890 | 33 | #447 | — | — |
| 1889 | 31 | #430 | — | — |
| 1888 | 24 | #512 | — | — |
| 1887 | 17 | #538 | — | — |
| 1886 | 21 | #478 | — | — |
| 1885 | 24 | #429 | — | — |
| 1884 | 19 | #463 | — | — |
| 1883 | 13 | #542 | — | — |
| 1882 | 9 | #636 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #840 | — | — |
| 1880 | 14 | #450 | — | — |
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).