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Avram vs Avrie

American parents have registered 1,070 Avries since 1880, against 937 Avrams. But in 2025 it was Avram that was commoner, 22 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avram against Avrie, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avram Avrie

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 73 years in which either name was published, Avram for 48 years and Avrie for 25 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Avram Avrie
Total US births 9371,070
Most in one year 3072
Babies in 2025 2212
Estimated living today 8801,100
Median age today 2114
Peak year 20152012
Best rank 3,591st boys2,516th girls
Rank in 2025 4,539th8,362nd
First recorded 19501993
Girls / boys 0 / 9371,060 / 10

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 Avrams alive today are over 21; half the Avries are over 14. That is 7 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: Avram and Avrie.