Avana
Avana was given to 52 girls in 2025, #3,107 among girls’ names; 534 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avana?
#3,107 among girls’ names, 2025
Avana rose from #5,861 in 2015 to #3,107 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 32.4 per million.
62 babies in 2022, the peak
Avana peaked in 2022, when 62 girls were given it, #2,762 among girls’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,107 | 32.4 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,465 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,711 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,762 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,940 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,769 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,198 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,475 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,935 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,046 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,861 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,357 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,353 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,859 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,151 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,302 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,578 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,167 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,922 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,390 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,729 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,426 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,227 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,853 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,234 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,977 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,923 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,646 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,533 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avana, and how old are they?
An estimated 530 Americans named Avana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 293 people named Avana (287 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,351 babies since 1880, Avana is the sixth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 1,407 babies (3.7%), again the sixth most given.
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 Avana
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 Avana and names like it
- Compare Avana and AviannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Avana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avana alive today were born 2013-2025.
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