Avonna
Avonna was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,429 among girls’ names; 381 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avonna?
#8,429 among girls’ names, 2025
Avonna rose from #8,524 in 2015 to #8,429 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 7.5 per million.
22 babies in 2018, the peak
Avonna peaked in 2018, when 22 girls were given it, #5,638 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,429 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,374 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,294 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,686 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,302 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,643 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,584 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,638 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,573 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,441 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,524 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,047 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,357 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,803 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,237 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,934 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,065 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,038 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,625 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,398 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,734 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,791 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,454 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,735 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,835 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,940 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,396 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,977 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,563 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,653 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,636 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,894 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,370 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,927 | 5.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,483 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,079 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avonna, and how old are they?
An estimated 377 Americans named Avonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 279 people named Avonna (275 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 306 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,759 babies since 1880, Avonna is the eighth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 1,004 babies (1.2%), again the eighth most given.
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 Avonna
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 Avonna and names like it
- Compare Avonna and AviannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAvonna peaked in 2018.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Avonna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avonna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.