Aven
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births · #1,256 for boys in 2025, 158 births
Given to boys 63.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 175 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,849since 1921
Aven over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #3,249 | 48 | #1,256 | 158 |
| 2024 | #2,889 | 57 | #1,155 | 181 |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | #1,149 | 182 |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 | #1,540 | 116 |
| 2021 | #3,678 | 41 | #1,931 | 78 |
| 2020 | #2,580 | 66 | #1,833 | 81 |
| 2019 | #2,400 | 74 | #1,459 | 119 |
| 2018 | #2,677 | 64 | #1,348 | 133 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 | #1,393 | 126 |
| 2016 | #2,206 | 87 | #1,266 | 144 |
| 2015 | #2,209 | 85 | #1,317 | 134 |
| 2014 | #1,853 | 109 | #1,389 | 122 |
| 2013 | #1,576 | 136 | #1,203 | 149 |
| 2012 | #1,552 | 141 | #1,072 | 175 |
| 2011 | #1,671 | 126 | #1,285 | 133 |
| 2010 | #1,639 | 130 | #1,256 | 139 |
| 2009 | #2,016 | 102 | #1,331 | 130 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #1,736 | 87 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | #1,995 | 70 |
| 2006 | #4,576 | 31 | #1,877 | 72 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #2,237 | 53 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #3,670 | 23 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | — | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | — | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
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| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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| 1955 | — | #3,886 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1921
The first year at least five boys were named Aven! It came in at #3,869, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Aven
Momentum · boys
Rising
- 101 spots since 2024 (#1,155 → #1,256)
- 577 spots since 2020 (#1,833 → #1,256)
- 61 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #1,256)
Rise & fade · boys
91 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 2012 at #1,072 (175 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,399
- Highest: 1 in 9,399 boys born in 2023 were named Aven (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,811 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,072 in 2012, was only 1 in 10,840 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 48.2% of all boys named Aven (1,374) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1997
- Mostly girls until 1996, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 17 | #3,869 (1921) | #3,993 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,886 (1955) | #3,886 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 17 | #4,634 (1974) | #5,052 |
| 1980s | 20 | #4,698 (1985) | #6,022 |
| 1990s | 70 | #4,341 (1999) | #5,905 |
| 2000s | 550 | #1,331 (2009) | #2,734 |
| 2010s | 1,374 | #1,072 (2012) | #1,299 |
| 2020s | 796 | #1,149 (2023) | #1,477 |
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.
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