Avanna
Avanna was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,774 among girls’ names; 402 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avanna?
#4,774 among girls’ names, 2025
Avanna rose from #8,056 in 2015 to #4,774 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 17.4 per million.
31 babies in 2023, the peak
Avanna peaked in 2023, when 31 girls were given it, #4,471 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,774 | 17.4 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,318 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,471 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,921 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,434 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,684 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,450 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,574 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,318 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,293 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,056 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,614 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,190 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,178 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,843 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,411 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,963 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,727 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,923 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,999 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,221 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,923 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,732 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,713 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,577 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avanna, and how old are they?
An estimated 399 Americans named Avanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Avanna (260 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 257 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 26,653 babies since 1880, Avanna is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 1,327 babies (2.1%), 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 Avanna
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 Avanna and names like it
- Compare Avanna and AviannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvanna peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Avanna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avanna alive today were born 2013-2025.
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