Avani
Avani was given to 339 girls in 2025, #806 among girls’ names; 4,303 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,270 Americans named Avani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avani is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “earth” (अवनि).
Borrowed from Sanskrit अवनि (avani, “earth”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avani?
#806 among girls’ names, 2025
Avani rose from #1,600 in 2015 to #806 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.21 per 1,000.
347 babies in 2025, the peak
Avani peaked in 2025, when 347 babies were given it (339 girls, #806 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 259 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 339 | #806 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 259 | #998 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 326 | #840 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 214 | #1,139 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 254 | #1,007 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 241 | #1,042 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 101 | #1,941 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 130 | #1,633 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,608 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,582 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 134 | #1,600 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 141 | #1,547 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,487 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,436 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 203 | #1,186 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 173 | #1,353 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 152 | #1,502 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,555 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,971 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,422 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,407 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 68 | #2,481 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,498 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,643 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,539 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,025 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,377 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,811 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,441 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,888 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,679 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,186 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,113 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,094 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,970 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,148 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,975 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,618 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,344 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,258 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,963 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,593 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,534 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,119 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,935 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,622 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,224 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,303 Americans recorded as Avani, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 339 girls and 8 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Avani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avani, and how old are they?
4,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,303 Americans ever recorded as Avani. The median Avani alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 3,113 people named Avani (3,043 women and girls, 70 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 58 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 155 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,590 |
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 Avani born?
The states with the most babies named Avani are Texas, California and Florida, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 53 | #600 | 1.0× |
| California | 38 | #789 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 24 | #694 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 24 | #473 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #651 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 14 | #676 | 0.5× |
| New York | 13 | #1,094 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 13 | #516 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 11 | #808 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #844 | 0.6× |
Where Avani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avani is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 1.2 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 Avani 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 16,912 babies since 1880, Avani is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 347 of their 920 babies (38%), the 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 Avani
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 Avani and names like it
- Compare Avani and AvianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvani peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avani since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Avani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Avani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.