Avy
Avy was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,946 among girls’ names; 477 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avy?
#7,946 among girls’ names, 2025
Avy fell from #7,016 in 2015 to #7,946 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 8.1 per million.
27 babies in 2017, the peak
Avy peaked in 2017, when 27 girls were given it, #4,939 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,946 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,977 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,268 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,750 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,414 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,667 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,067 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,840 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,939 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,053 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,016 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,752 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,500 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,142 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,364 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,935 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,587 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,585 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,427 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,389 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,187 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,875 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,618 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,477 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,256 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,614 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,458 | 4.5 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,228 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 477 Americans recorded as Avy, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 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 Avy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avy, and how old are they?
An estimated 468 Americans named Avy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 524 people named Avy (449 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 360 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 362,335 babies since 1880, Avy is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 8,418 babies (<1%), 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 Avy
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 Avy and names like it
- Compare Avy and AvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avy since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Avy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avy alive today were born 2013-2025.
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