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Aveah vs Aven

American parents have registered 4,504 Avens since 1880, against 788 Aveahs. Aven is still ahead, with 206 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aveah against Aven, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aveah 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

Aven has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1921 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Aveah had 71 and Aven had 147.

Side by side

  Aveah Aven
Total US births 7884,504
Most in one year 71316
Babies in 2025 56206
Estimated living today 7804,400
Median age today 611
Peak year 20202023
Best rank 2,441st girls1,149th boys
Rank in 2025 2,957th1,256th
First recorded 20071921
Girls / boys 788 / 01,655 / 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 Avens alive today are over 11; half the Aveahs are over 6. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aveah Aven
England and Wales 3287

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aveah and Aven.