Avian
Avian was given to 96 boys in 2025, #1,699 among boys’ names; 2,225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Avian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avian?
#1,699 among boys’ names, 2025
Avian rose from #1,984 in 2015 to #1,699 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 38.1 to 56.2 per million.
114 babies in 2022, the peak
Avian peaked in 2022, when 114 babies were given it (107 boys, #1,626 among boys’ names). The 96 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 96 | #1,699 | |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,331 | 60 | #2,348 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,507 | 79 | #1,954 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,405 | 107 | #1,626 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,273 | 87 | #1,802 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,640 | 79 | #1,873 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 71 | #2,046 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,021 | 102 | #1,606 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,795 | 95 | #1,662 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,993 | 88 | #1,755 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #11,985 | 73 | #1,984 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,045 | 81 | #1,829 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,359 | 69 | #1,989 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,801 | 58 | #2,239 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 54 | #2,347 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,217 | 63 | #2,119 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 71 | #1,975 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,653 | 61 | #2,187 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,762 | 68 | #2,037 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,777 | 64 | #2,063 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,947 | 52 | #2,264 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,255 | 44 | #2,490 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,338 | 34 | #2,846 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,084 | 33 | #2,815 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,364 | 29 | #3,064 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,839 | 25 | #3,301 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,527 | 16 | #4,354 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,409 | 18 | #3,859 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 11 | #5,306 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,696 | 12 | #4,900 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,651 | 9 | #5,957 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 7 | #7,024 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,714 | 10 | #5,383 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #6,719 | |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,028 | 5 | #8,308 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,324 | 12 | #4,427 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,978 | 10 | #4,834 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,747 | 8 | #5,230 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,409 | 5 | #7,038 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #5,983 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,811 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,566 | 6 | #5,618 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,330 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #4,980 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,724 | under 5 |
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 Avian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,225 Americans recorded as Avian, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 96 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Avian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avian, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,225 Americans ever recorded as Avian. The median Avian alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,507 people named Avian (372 women and girls, 1,135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,684 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 162 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 853 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
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 Avian born?
The states with the most babies named Avian are California, Texas and New York, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,123 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,255 | 1.1× |
| New York | 8 | #1,313 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,492 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,246 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,290 | 0.1× |
Where Avian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avian is most over-represented in Texas: since 1973 it was given 1.1 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 Avian 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 17,863 babies since 1880, Avian is the fifth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 96 of their 867 babies (11%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Avian
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 Avian and names like it
- Compare Avian and AvenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvian peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avian since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Avian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.