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Avia vs Aviana

American parents have registered 8,863 Avianas since 1880, against 1,948 Avias. Aviana is still ahead, with 301 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avia against Aviana, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avia Aviana

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 68 years in which either name was published, Aviana for 35 years and Avia for 33 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Avia Aviana
Total US births 1,9488,863
Most in one year 113845
Babies in 2025 99301
Estimated living today 1,9008,800
Median age today 108
Peak year 20162016
Best rank 1,828th girls393rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,942nd887th
First recorded 19141981
Girls / boys 1,948 / 08,863 / 0

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 Avias alive today are over 10; half the Avianas are over 8. 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 Avia Aviana
England and Wales 159247

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: Avia and Aviana.