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Averi vs Avery

American parents have registered 236,886 Averys since 1880, against 8,313 Averis. Avery is still ahead, with 6,423 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Averi against Avery, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Averi Avery

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

Avery has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Averi had 52 and Avery had 902.

Side by side

  Averi Avery
Total US births 8,313236,886
Most in one year 42111,861
Babies in 2025 2046,423
Estimated living today 8,200230,000
Median age today 1212
Peak year 20152014
Best rank 713th girls14th girls
Rank in 2025 1,200th37th
First recorded 19691880
Girls / boys 7,909 / 404170,006 / 66,880

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.

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 Averi Avery
England and Wales 112,443
Northern Ireland 3114

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: Averi and Avery.