Avishai — #7455 US boys' name
266 babies named Avishai in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 48% of names given to boys today.
43% of everyone ever named Avishai was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Avishai in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Avishai
The Social Security Administration has registered 266 babies named Avishai between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Avishai currently holds the #7455 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Avishai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 114 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Avishai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Avishai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Avishai 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 266 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.
Avishai at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Avishai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1996
- Peak year (2022)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
Currently ranks #7455 among boys.
266 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 20 births in a single year.
Avishai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 114 births that decade — 43% of Avishai's all-time total
Avishai decade highlights
- Peak decade 114 births
- Runner-up 73 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Avishai's strongest decade
114 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Avishai by state
Where Avishai concentrates geographically — total births since 1996
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.9% |
5 of 266 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1996–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.