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
- 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
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 | #3,249 | 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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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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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.
Where Aven is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#627 · 1 in 4,308
- Arizona#850 · 1 in 9,062
- Texas#1,579 · 1 in 23,291
- California#1,654 · 1 in 28,923
Best ever in a state: #508 in Kansas, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #627 | 5 | 1 in 4,308 |
| Arizona | #850 | 5 | 1 in 9,062 |
| Texas | #1,579 | 8 | 1 in 23,291 |
| California | #1,654 | 9 | 1 in 28,923 |
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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 Aven
- 101 spots since 2024 (#1,155 → #1,256)
- 577 spots since 2020 (#1,833 → #1,256)
- 61 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #1,256)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 2012 at #1,072 (175 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 48.2% of all boys named Aven (1,374) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1996, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Aven in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 61,329 of them was named Aven, which outranked 77.2% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,463Zamiyah32
- #4,463Zeina32
- #4,463Zyon32
- #4,576Aven31
- #4,576Ailey31
- #4,576Ajla31
- #4,576Alaisha31
- #4,685Adalie30
- #4,685Agustina30
- #4,685Aisling30
Tied with 108 names at #4,576; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 28,545 of them was named Aven, which outranked 86.6% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,856Xzavion73
- #1,856Yakov73
- #1,856Zyaire73
- #1,877Aven72
- #1,877Apollo72
- #1,877Bennie72
- #1,877Caelan72
- #1,893Aryeh71
- #1,893Caedmon71
- #1,893Chester71
Tied with 15 names at #1,877; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.