Girls' name · since 1917
Aver
Aver has 15 recorded births since 1917 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1919 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #49,481 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 15
- born since 1917
- 1910s
- peak decade
15 girls have been named Aver since 1917, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Aver has 15 recorded births among girls since 1917, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1910s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1917 to 1919.
- #49,481 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 15 born since 1917
- 1910s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aver ranks #49,481 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 15 born since 1917, peaking in the 1910s.
- #49,481 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 15
- born since 1917
- 1910s
- peak decade
Aver's 15 recorded births place it above 30.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Aver's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Aver splits its recorded history at 1919: 67% of all births land in the more recent half, 33% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1917 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1919 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Aver popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1917–1919
- Peak year (1919)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Aver by decade
1910s is the heaviest window (15 births, 100% of the file).
1910s was Aver's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Aver births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 1910s at 15 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Aver: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1919)
Similar record span (~2 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1917–1919 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aver draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.