Avah — #1191 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Avah

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,894 babies named Avah between 1923 and 2024, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Avah currently holds the #1191 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 679 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Avah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,176 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Avah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 676 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Avah in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Avah 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 6,894 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.