Girls' name · since 2009
Avera
Avera has 62 recorded births since 2009 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2020 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #32,432 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,335 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 62
- born since 2009
- 2020s
- peak decade
62 babies have been named Avera since 2009, making it today's #16335 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Avera has been recorded 62 times among girls since 2009, currently ranked #16335 nationally and more common than 6% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2009 to 2025.
- #32,432 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,335 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 62 born since 2009
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Avera ranks #32,432 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,335 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 62 born since 2009, peaking in the 2020s.
- #32,432 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,335 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 62
- born since 2009
- 2020s
- peak decade
Avera's 62 recorded births place it above 54.95% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Avera compares
62 18th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Avera's all-time total is 84% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Avera | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 62 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Avera's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Avera splits its recorded history at 2021: 45% of all births land in the more recent half, 55% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2009 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2020 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Avera popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Avera by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (37 births, 60% of the file).
2020s was Avera's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 60% of all-time use.
Avera births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
20 births
- 2020s
2020s
37 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 37 births (60% of all-time use).
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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, 2009–2025 (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 Avera 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.