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Avion vs Aviva

American parents have registered 3,685 Avivas since 1880, against 2,996 Avions. Aviva is still ahead, with 131 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avion against Aviva, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avion Aviva

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 84 years in which either name was published, Aviva for 60 years and Avion for 24 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Avion Aviva
Total US births 2,9963,685
Most in one year 140131
Babies in 2025 60131
Estimated living today 3,0003,600
Median age today 1318
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 1,403rd boys1,592nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,304th1,592nd
First recorded 19761935
Girls / boys 304 / 2,6923,685 / 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 Avivas alive today are over 18; half the Avions are over 13. 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.

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