Avery — #31 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Avery

The Social Security Administration has registered 164,682 babies named Avery between 1890 and 2024, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Avery currently holds the #31 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 9,578 babies received it in a single year. Avery is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 65,711 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Avery performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 82,909 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Avery shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 18,720 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Avery in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Avery in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 164,682 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.