Ava — #9 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Ava

The Social Security Administration has registered 336,272 babies named Ava between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ava currently holds the #9 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 18,053 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ava performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 155,844 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ava shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 30,736 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ava in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ava in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 336,272 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.