Avah
Avah was given to 150 girls in 2025, #1,436 among girls’ names; 7,046 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,990 Americans named Avah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 7 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avah is “a female given name.”
Rare fanciful spelling of Ava.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avah?
#1,436 among girls’ names, 2025
Avah fell from #656 in 2015 to #1,436 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.25 to 0.09 per 1,000.
679 babies in 2018, the peak
Avah peaked in 2018, when 679 girls were given it, #463 among girls’ names. The 150 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 150 | #1,436 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 198 | #1,196 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 234 | #1,064 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 288 | #941 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 338 | #822 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 438 | #658 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 444 | #659 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 679 | #463 | 0.40 |
| 2017 | 522 | #579 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 406 | #706 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 438 | #656 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 398 | #707 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 346 | #788 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 329 | #815 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 294 | #887 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 320 | #839 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 289 | #924 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 274 | #978 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 233 | #1,109 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 170 | #1,359 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 106 | #1,838 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,745 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,228 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,356 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,202 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,610 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,288 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,393 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,010 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avah, and how old are they?
6,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,046 Americans ever recorded as Avah. The median Avah alive today is 10 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,344 people named Avah (4,342 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,850 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Avah born?
The states with the most babies named Avah are California, Ohio and Florida, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,590 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 12 | #750 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,178 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,052 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 7 | #739 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,083 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,386 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,296 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,417 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 5 | #833 | 1.1× |
Where Avah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avah is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1923 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Avah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 364,978 babies since 1880, Avah is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 150 of their 8,476 babies (1.8%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Avah
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 Avah and names like it
- Compare Avah and AvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAvah peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avah since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Avah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.