Avan
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #10,545 · #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
Given to boys 94.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 93 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 994since 1923
Avan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,848 | 28 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,793 | 29 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,347 | 35 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,100 | 39 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,497 | 32 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,136 | 36 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,851 | 43 | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #2,893 | 41 |
| 2017 | — | #2,186 | 61 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,935 | 40 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,276 | 58 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,999 | 68 |
| 2010 | — | #2,511 | 49 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,551 | 30 | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #4,520 | 20 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
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| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
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| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Avan! It came in at #4,239, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Avan is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Ohio#1,045 · 1 in 9,960
- North Carolina#1,084 · 1 in 10,111
- Texas#1,099 · 1 in 11,103
- Pennsylvania#1,172 · 1 in 12,046
- Illinois#1,192 · 1 in 11,086
Best ever in a state: #702 in Indiana, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #1,045 | 6 | 1 in 9,960 |
| North Carolina | #1,084 | 5 | 1 in 10,111 |
| Texas | #1,099 | 16 | 1 in 11,103 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,172 | 5 | 1 in 12,046 |
| Illinois | #1,192 | 6 | 1 in 11,086 |
| California | #1,231 | 15 | 1 in 15,366 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Avan
- 55 spots since 2024 (#3,793 → #3,848)
- 712 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #3,848)
- 1,572 spots since 2015 (#2,276 → #3,848)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2012 at #1,657 (93 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,397 boys born in 2012 were named Avan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 58.6% of all boys named Avan (582) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 5 | #4,239 (1923) | #4,239 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,763 (1931) | #3,763 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,733 (1947) | #3,733 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,734 (1952) | #3,734 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 10 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,809 |
| 1980s | 8 | #4,853 (1986) | #4,853 |
| 1990s | 10 | #9,015 (1996) | #9,323 |
| 2000s | 165 | #3,511 (2007) | #4,645 |
| 2010s | 582 | #1,657 (2012) | #2,350 |
| 2020s | 199 | #3,100 (2022) | #3,454 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Avan in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 352,211 of them was named Avan, which outranked 13.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,665 names at #16,869; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 20,397 of them was named Avan, which outranked 88.4% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,637Talen94
- #1,637Wes94
- #1,637Wilmer94
- #1,657Avan93
- #1,657Ammar93
- #1,657Archie93
- #1,657Boaz93
- #1,668Abdullahi92
- #1,668Avrohom92
- #1,668Calen92
Tied with 10 names at #1,657; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.