Ave vs Aven
American parents have registered 4,504 Avens since 1880, against 939 Aves. Aven is still ahead, with 206 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Ave Aven
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 90 years in which either name was published, Ave for 51 years and Aven for 39 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.
Side by side
| Ave | Aven | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 939 | 4,504 |
| Most in one year | 31 | 316 |
| Babies in 2025 | 10 | 206 |
| Estimated living today | 800 | 4,400 |
| Median age today | 21 | 11 |
| Peak year | 2007 | 2023 |
| Best rank | 4,675th girls | 1,149th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 9,457th | 1,256th |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1921 |
| Girls / boys | 939 / 0 | 1,655 / 2,849 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Aves alive today are over 21; half the Avens are over 11. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ave and Aven.