Aven
Aven is given to both girls and boys: 48 girls and 158 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,258 among girls’ names and #1,256 among boys’, #2,167 among all names counting both); 4,504 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,440 Americans named Aven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aven?
#1,256 among boys’ names, 2025
Aven rose from #1,318 in 2015 to #1,256 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 69.9 to 92.5 per million.
316 babies in 2012, the peak
Aven peaked in 2012, when 316 babies were given it (175 boys, #1,072 among boys’ names). The 206 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,258 | 158 | #1,256 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,896 | 181 | #1,155 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,191 | 182 | #1,150 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,476 | 116 | #1,540 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,686 | 78 | #1,930 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,581 | 81 | #1,835 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,404 | 119 | #1,460 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,686 | 133 | #1,348 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,362 | 126 | #1,393 |
| 2016 | 87 | #2,209 | 144 | #1,267 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,214 | 134 | #1,318 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,854 | 122 | #1,390 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,579 | 149 | #1,203 |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,552 | 175 | #1,072 |
| 2011 | 126 | #1,675 | 133 | #1,285 |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,639 | 139 | #1,256 |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,018 | 130 | #1,333 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,467 | 87 | #1,737 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,577 | 70 | #1,998 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,589 | 72 | #1,877 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,035 | 53 | #2,234 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,997 | 41 | #2,599 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,451 | 43 | #2,430 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,263 | 23 | #3,669 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,205 | 15 | #4,904 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,354 | 16 | #4,591 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,456 | 16 | #4,353 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #6,899 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,247 | 13 | #4,679 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,671 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,041 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,677 | 8 | #6,419 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 12 | #4,716 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,491 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,403 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,536 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,017 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #6,489 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #4,727 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,117 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,535 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,681 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #3,922 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,291 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,282 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #3,895 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 6 | #3,898 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Aven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,504 Americans recorded as Aven, 37% are girls and 63% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aven, and how old are they?
4,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,504 Americans ever recorded as Aven. The median Aven alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 3,311 people named Aven (1,383 women and girls, 1,928 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,389 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 79 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,650 |
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 Aven born?
The states with the most babies named Aven are California, Texas and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #848 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,488 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,363 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 8 | #997 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,040 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,121 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,006 | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #699 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,245 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,301 | 0.3× |
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 Aven 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 16,871 babies since 1880, Aven is the most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 206 of their 667 babies (31%), again the 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 Aven
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 Aven and names like it
- Compare Aven and AvionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAven peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aven since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Aven.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aven alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.