Avrum
Avrum was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,888 among boys’ names; 717 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avrum by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avrum?
#2,888 among boys’ names, 2025
Avrum rose from #5,310 in 2015 to #2,888 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 25.2 per million.
47 babies in 2023, the peak
Avrum peaked in 2023, when 47 boys were given it, #2,738 among boys’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,888 | 25.2 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,110 | 22.6 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,738 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,922 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,865 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,076 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,233 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,710 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,892 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,105 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,310 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,270 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,071 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,625 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,219 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,001 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,123 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,789 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,452 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,128 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,212 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,018 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,905 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,121 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,412 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,204 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,901 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,560 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,453 | 4.2 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,312 | 2.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,449 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,332 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,594 | 4.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,080 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,530 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,964 | 3.9 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,890 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,331 | 3.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,247 | 4.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,166 | 4.9 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,199 | 5.4 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,287 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,315 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,685 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Avrum a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avrum has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avrum: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avrum, and how old are they?
An estimated 670 Americans named Avrum and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 487 people named Avrum (8 women and girls, 479 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 439 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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 Avrum born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 367 | not ranked | 8.1× |
Where Avrum is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avrum is most over-represented in New York: since 1933 it was given 8.1 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 Avrum 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,718 babies since 1880, Avrum is the second most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 65 babies (66%), the 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 Avrum
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 Avrum and names like it
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- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Avrum.
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