Avery

#37 for girls in 2025, 5,267 births · #291 for boys in 2025, 1,156 births
Given to girls 71.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
2013 · 9,185 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
23 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
170,006
since 1890

Avery over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201885peak #12, 2013peak #181, 2017girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#375,267#2911,156
2024#315,658#2591,353
2023#295,879#2411,462
2022#266,251#2211,663
2021#196,815#2101,808
2020#196,747#2111,794
2019#187,350#2041,934
2018#168,099#1902,117
2017#148,237#1812,200
2016#168,774#1882,125
2015#169,356#1882,218
2014#149,578#1862,283
2013#129,185#1962,052
2012#138,319#1872,019
2011#187,346#2011,792
2010#236,677#2111,697
2009#326,301#2231,633
2008#385,829#2161,748
2007#485,386#2211,742
2006#525,254#2111,794
2005#674,654#2151,662
2004#774,044#2251,523
2003#893,687#2191,596
2002#1322,589#2451,387
2001#1522,131#2421,401
2000#1761,831#2451,370
1999#2061,491#2361,368
1998#2461,242#2471,237
1997#312937#2501,173
1996#486492#2511,180
1995#465542#2411,195
1994#484518#2591,117
1993#529453#297933
1992#543433#462469
1991#648339#494400
1990#802250#492387
1989#960181#436469
1988#1,028157#484362
1987#1,257112#459376
1986#1,304102#531279
1985#1,45885#546259
1984#1,63367#584209
1983#1,53173#539243
1982#1,65369#586217
1981#1,88757#556235
1980#2,09649#570229
1979#1,91754#593207
1978#2,26940#559224
1977#2,16243#588205
1976#2,29236#526235
1975#2,56530#544218
1974#2,68327#600178
1973#2,68926#552204
1972#2,90323#607169
1971#3,16621#645162
1970#3,43518#621171
1969#2,91721#644151
1968#2,87420#612155
1967#3,65613#564177
1966#3,26615#554192
1965#3,54913#537206
1964#3,10817#581185
1963#4,27210#588180
1962#2,81419#571188
1961#3,06017#583184
1960#2,51223#567189
1959#3,43613#565191
1958#2,26025#591171
1957#2,92616#611158
1956#2,72518#640140
1955#2,34122#632138
1954#3,01914#651125
1953#3,68710#74492
1952#4,9086#74689
1951#4,0118#78580
1950#2,43617#76181
1949#3,6129#90558
1948#2,97412#77477
1947#3,7069#71592
1946#4,4176#75377
1945#2,45813#67679
1944#3,3788#77465
1943#1,90021#74076
1942#2,53713#70582
1941#2,66811#73371
1940#2,73710#65385
1939#3,1458#81156
1938#2,9409#67280
1937—#74267
1936#2,15314#74765
1935#2,73110#77164
1934#2,56711#60695
1933#2,8689#60692
1932—#63289
1931#2,58111#69775
1930#3,6587#599103
1929#2,30114#599102
1928#2,28415#63695
1927#2,43314#601107
1926#1,93220#63199
1925#2,77812#628101
1924#2,80912#577123
1923#2,46514#600111
1922#2,38715#551131
1921#2,04819#570123
1920#2,26316#587113
1919#1,85520#564112
1918#2,02918#552118
1917#3,0929#544115
1916#2,49812#555106
1915—#493125
1914#2,8767#51291
1913#2,3318#53166
1912#1,9819#51558
1911—#66722
1910#1,52110#63421
1909#1,7637#65317
1908#2,1015#52223
1907#1,8216#61617
1906—#56817
1905—#47722
1904—#51518
1903#1,5926#61913
1902#1,4387#50718
1901—#43319
1900#1,7236#74312
1899—#45717
1898—#54315
1897—#41121
1896—#43820
1895—#43720
1894—#46418
1893—#41919
1892—#45818
1891—#6359
1890#1,2106#43417
1889—#6739
1888—#55413
1887—#46114
1886—#8456
1885—#54712
1884—#46816
1883—#47914
1882—#48914
1881—#32425
1880—#6409
First appearance
1890

The first year at least five girls were named Avery! It came in at #1,210, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1891–1899, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Avery is popular in 1885

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Avery
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 6 spots since 2024 (#31 → #37)
  • 18 spots since 2020 (#19 → #37)
  • 21 spots since 2015 (#16 → #37)
  • Biggest jump: 174 spots in 1997 (#486 → #312)
  • Biggest drop: 21 spots in 1996 (#465 → #486)
Rise & fade · girls
123 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 2013 at #12 (9,185 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 23 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 23 yrs · run 2003–2025
  • Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1989–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 187
  • Highest: 1 in 187 girls born in 2014 were named Avery (0.54%)
  • Latest: 1 in 305 girls born in 2025 (0.33%)
  • Its best rank, #12 in 2013, was only 1 in 191 (0.52%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 48.8% of all girls named Avery (82,921) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1998
  • Mostly boys until 1997, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#1,210 (1890)#1,210
1900s37#1,438 (1902)#1,740
1910s93#1,521 (1910)#2,273
1920s151#1,932 (1926)#2,370
1930s79#2,153 (1936)#2,830
1940s112#1,900 (1943)#3,039
1950s149#2,260 (1958)#3,175
1960s168#2,512 (1960)#3,203
1970s318#1,917 (1979)#2,608
1980s952#960 (1989)#1,481
1990s6,697#206 (1999)#472
2000s41,706#32 (2009)#86
2010s82,921#12 (2013)#16
2020s36,617#19 (2021)#27

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Avery in 1885

boys
#547
12 births · 1 in 8,983 boys

Top boys' names in 1885

  1. #1John8,756
  2. #2William8,044
  3. #3James5,175
  4. #4George4,674
  5. #5Charles4,599
  6. #6Frank3,067
  7. #7Joseph2,540
  8. #8Henry2,406
  9. #9Robert2,322
  10. #10Thomas2,266
  11. #547Avery12
More about 1885

boys

107,799 boys got a published name in 1885; 1 in 8,983 of them was named Avery, which outranked 50.1% of the 1,097 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Avery
  1. #521Turner13
  2. #521Wilburn13
  3. #521Wylie13
  4. #547Avery12
  5. #547Adrian12
  6. #547Alpha12
  7. #547Augustine12
  8. #577Alford11
  9. #577Aron11
  10. #577Artie11

Tied with 29 names at #547; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1884
Risers
  1. ↑ 426Bryant#848 → #422
  2. ↑ 424Butler#971 → #547
  3. ↑ 424Cyril#971 → #547
  4. ↑ 409Gerhard#848 → #439
  5. ↑ 394Rowland#971 → #577
Fallers
  1. ↓ 520Clarance#416 → #936
  2. ↓ 416Oswald#520 → #936
  3. ↓ 389Doctor#547 → #936
  4. ↓ 366Dexter#570 → #936
  5. ↓ 366Gustaf#570 → #936

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1885 →