Aava
Aava was given to 5 girls in 2025, #14,949 among girls’ names; 180 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aava by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aava mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Aava is “a female given name from Finnish” Its etymology gives the sense “open sea” (aava).
From aava (“open sea”), occasionally recorded since early 20th century. Popularised in the 2000s decade partly through association with the fashionable English Ava.
/ˈɑːʋɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aava?
#14,949 among girls’ names, 2025
Aava fell from #9,485 in 2015 to #14,949 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
19 babies in 2020, the peak
Aava peaked in 2020, when 19 girls were given it, #6,080 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,949 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,294 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,309 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,540 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,291 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,080 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,137 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,694 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,112 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,485 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,073 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,577 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,879 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,180 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,680 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,580 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,927 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,419 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aava a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aava has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aava: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aava, and how old are they?
An estimated 179 Americans named Aava and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 364,927 babies since 1880, Aava is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 8,458 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aava
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aava and names like it
- Compare Aava and AvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAava peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aava since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aava: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Aava.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aava alive today were born 2013-2025.
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