Advay
Advay was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,313 among boys’ names; 564 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Advay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Advay?
#3,313 among boys’ names, 2025
Advay rose from #3,431 in 2015 to #3,313 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.7 to 20.5 per million.
51 babies in 2014, the peak
Advay peaked in 2014, when 51 boys were given it, #2,459 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,313 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,199 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,741 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,633 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,008 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,418 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,793 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,479 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,675 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,596 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,431 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,459 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,338 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,368 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,357 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,456 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,723 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,265 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,932 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,095 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,281 | 7.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,590 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,458 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Advay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Advay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Advay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Advay, and how old are they?
An estimated 559 Americans named Advay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 415 people named Advay (7 women and girls, 408 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 414 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Advay
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.
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