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Avian vs Avianna

American parents have registered 9,677 Aviannas since 1880, against 2,225 Avians. Avianna is still ahead, with 491 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avian Avianna

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 45 years in which either name was published, Avianna for 31 years and Avian for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Avian Avianna
Total US births 2,2259,677
Most in one year 114881
Babies in 2025 96491
Estimated living today 2,2009,600
Median age today 127
Peak year 20222021
Best rank 1,626th boys354th girls
Rank in 2025 1,699th595th
First recorded 19731989
Girls / boys 329 / 1,8969,677 / 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 Avians alive today are over 12; half the Aviannas are over 7. 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 Avian Avianna
England and Wales 4146

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: Avian and Avianna.