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Avianna vs Avis

American parents have registered 18,042 Avises since 1880, against 9,677 Aviannas. But in 2025 it was Avianna that was commoner, 491 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avianna Avis

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 146 years in which either name was published, Avis for 117 years and Avianna for 29 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Avianna Avis
Total US births 9,67718,042
Most in one year 881452
Babies in 2025 4916
Estimated living today 9,6006,300
Median age today 767
Peak year 20211920
Best rank 354th girls312th girls
Rank in 2025 595th13,208th
First recorded 19891880
Girls / boys 9,677 / 017,224 / 818

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 Avises alive today are over 67; half the Aviannas are over 7. That is 60 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.

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