Avi
Avi was given to 297 boys in 2025, #832 among boys’ names; 6,921 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,780 Americans named Avi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avi is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the senses “father” (אבי) and “Abraham, lit. father of a multitude or exalted father” (אַבְרָהָם) and “Abner, lit. father of light” (אַבְנֵר).
From Hebrew אבי (Ávi, “father”), chiefly as a diminutive of אַבְרָהָם (Avrahám, “Abraham, lit. father of a multitude or exalted father”) and אַבְנֵר (Avnér, “Abner, lit. father of light”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avi?
#832 among boys’ names, 2025
Avi rose from #939 in 2015 to #832 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.17 per 1,000.
425 babies in 2022, the peak
Avi peaked in 2022, when 425 babies were given it (366 boys, #720 among boys’ names). The 313 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,879 | 297 | #832 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,911 | 290 | #842 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,433 | 349 | #747 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,865 | 366 | #720 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,624 | 313 | #786 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,226 | 244 | #916 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,022 | 196 | #1,048 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,250 | 230 | #924 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,781 | 212 | #974 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,265 | 220 | #947 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,999 | 224 | #939 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,276 | 187 | #1,057 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,158 | 184 | #1,043 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,057 | 179 | #1,060 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,010 | 165 | #1,116 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,896 | 129 | #1,323 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,281 | 136 | #1,290 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,906 | 139 | #1,252 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,578 | 144 | #1,223 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,733 | 126 | #1,309 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,563 | 108 | #1,380 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,771 | 106 | #1,366 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,630 | 92 | #1,428 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,476 | 95 | #1,382 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,128 | 84 | #1,456 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,243 | 90 | #1,387 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,876 | 59 | #1,731 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 48 | #1,986 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 45 | #1,989 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,991 | 44 | #1,984 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 33 | #2,347 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 48 | #1,791 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 35 | #2,208 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 36 | #2,126 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 38 | #1,978 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 38 | #1,967 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 42 | #1,789 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 41 | #1,705 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 40 | #1,685 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,056 | 27 | #2,097 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 42 | #1,547 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 25 | #2,101 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 42 | #1,472 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 31 | #1,816 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 32 | #1,767 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 32 | #1,767 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,337 | 31 | #1,790 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 36 | #1,571 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 44 | #1,370 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 27 | #1,830 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 31 | #1,632 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 20 | #2,131 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 34 | #1,465 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 14 | #2,545 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 19 | #2,131 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 14 | #2,517 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 16 | #2,135 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 13 | #2,322 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 10 | #2,620 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 8 | #3,002 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 8 | #3,001 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,628 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,673 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,082 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 8 | #3,114 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 8 | #3,050 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 8 | #3,048 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 6 | #3,584 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 13 | #2,272 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,191 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,048 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #3,721 |
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 Avi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,921 Americans recorded as Avi, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 girls and 297 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Avi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avi, and how old are they?
6,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,921 Americans ever recorded as Avi. The median Avi alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 6,230 people named Avi (938 women and girls, 5,292 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 56 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 325 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 575 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,780 |
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 Avi born?
The states with the most babies named Avi are California, New York and New Jersey, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 33 | #777 | 0.9× |
| New York | 32 | #504 | 2.6× |
| New Jersey | 25 | #336 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 24 | #977 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 24 | #665 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #527 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 18 | #405 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #721 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 11 | #754 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 11 | #595 | 0.2× |
Where Avi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avi is most over-represented in New York: since 1949 it was given 2.6 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 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 Avi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Avi
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 Avi and names like it
- Compare Avi and OriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvi peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avi since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Avi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Avi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.