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Averie vs Avery

American parents have registered 236,886 Averys since 1880, against 13,717 Averies. Avery is still ahead, with 6,423 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Averie 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 2020, when Averie had 737 and Avery had 8,541.

Side by side

  Averie Avery
Total US births 13,717236,886
Most in one year 87111,861
Babies in 2025 4106,423
Estimated living today 14,000230,000
Median age today 1012
Peak year 20142014
Best rank 380th girls14th girls
Rank in 2025 701st37th
First recorded 19851880
Girls / boys 13,448 / 269170,006 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Averys alive today are over 12; half the Averies are over 10. That is 2 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 Averie Avery
England and Wales 2352,443
Ireland 36276
Scotland 25234
Northern Ireland 20114

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: Averie and Avery.