Avayah
Avayah was given to 155 girls in 2025, #1,407 among girls’ names; 2,223 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,210 Americans named Avayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avayah?
#1,407 among girls’ names, 2025
Avayah rose from #2,782 in 2015 to #1,407 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 35.3 to 96.4 per million.
321 babies in 2022, the peak
Avayah peaked in 2022, when 321 girls were given it, #866 among girls’ names. The 155 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,407 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 216 | #1,120 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 281 | #941 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 321 | #866 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 320 | #855 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 276 | #936 | 0.17 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,435 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,458 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,693 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,569 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,782 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,714 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,469 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,056 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,179 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,576 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,916 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,153 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,585 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,775 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,821 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avayah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avayah, and how old are they?
2,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,223 Americans ever recorded as Avayah. The median Avayah alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 202 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,010 |
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.
Where are babies named Avayah born?
The states with the most babies named Avayah are California, Texas and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #856 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,275 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,563 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 7 | #975 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,296 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 6 | #930 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,475 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,559 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,419 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,069 | 0.6× |
Where Avayah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avayah is most over-represented in California: since 2005 it was given 1.6 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 Avayah 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 13,669 babies since 1880, Avayah is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 155 of their 619 babies (25%), again the second 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 Avayah
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 Avayah and names like it
- Compare Avayah and AvahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvayah peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Avayah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avayah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.