Avan
Avan was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,853 among boys’ names; 1,051 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Avan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avan?
#3,853 among boys’ names, 2025
Avan fell from #2,278 in 2015 to #3,853 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.3 to 16.4 per million.
98 babies in 2012, the peak
Avan peaked in 2012, when 98 babies were given it (93 boys, #1,658 among boys’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,853 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,802 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,353 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,102 | 22.3 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,503 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,141 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,859 | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,893 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,190 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,940 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,278 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,174 | 32.3 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,023 | 35.4 |
| 2012 | 93 | #1,658 | 49.0 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,001 | 35.8 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,515 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,558 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,149 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,515 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,528 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,718 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,161 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,287 | 7.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,357 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,743 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,118 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,879 | 4.3 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,865 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,915 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,778 | 2.6 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,760 | 2.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,799 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,281 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Avan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,051 Americans recorded as Avan, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 28 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Avan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avan, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,051 Americans ever recorded as Avan. The median Avan alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,058 people named Avan (164 women and girls, 894 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 411 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 588 |
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 Avan born?
The states with the most babies named Avan are California, Texas and Illinois, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 125 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 83 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Avan 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 17,997 babies since 1880, Avan is the eighth most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 916 babies (3.1%), the seventh 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 Avan
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 Avan and names like it
- Compare Avan and AvenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAvan peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avan since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Avan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.