Avory
Avory was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,150 among girls’ names; 879 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avory?
#6,150 among girls’ names, 2025
Avory rose from #6,271 in 2015 to #6,150 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 11.8 per million.
56 babies in 2014, the peak
Avory peaked in 2014, when 56 babies were given it (35 girls, #4,193 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,150 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,669 | 8 | #9,071 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,336 | 9 | #8,323 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,603 | 5 | #12,545 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,654 | 10 | #7,648 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,965 | 12 | #6,668 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,747 | 13 | #6,436 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,330 | 8 | #8,903 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,898 | 14 | #6,079 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,475 | 14 | #6,070 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,271 | 21 | #4,558 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,193 | 21 | #4,547 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,160 | 14 | #5,947 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,847 | 17 | #5,267 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,484 | 7 | #9,701 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,944 | 13 | #6,379 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,590 | 18 | #5,119 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,839 | 7 | #9,945 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,587 | 11 | #7,140 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,788 | 13 | #6,126 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,566 | 15 | #5,304 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,815 | 7 | #9,017 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,096 | 14 | #5,288 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,694 | 6 | #9,499 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,836 | 12 | #5,694 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,633 | 13 | #5,306 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,774 | 13 | #5,055 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,630 | 5 | #9,750 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,904 | 11 | #5,307 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,755 | 5 | #9,121 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,564 | 9 | #5,958 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,931 | 5 | #8,897 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,268 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,311 |
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 Avory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 879 Americans recorded as Avory, 59% are girls and 41% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Avory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avory, and how old are they?
An estimated 869 Americans named Avory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 706 people named Avory (415 women and girls, 291 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 754 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 251,362 babies since 1880, Avory is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 6,724 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Avory
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.
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