Avi
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #832 for boys in 2025, 297 births
Given to boys 87.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 366 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,087since 1949
Avi 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 | #6,838 | 16 | #832 | 297 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #842 | 290 |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 | #747 | 349 |
| 2022 | #2,856 | 59 | #720 | 366 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | #786 | 313 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | #916 | 244 |
| 2019 | #4,006 | 36 | #1,047 | 196 |
| 2018 | #3,245 | 49 | #924 | 230 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | #974 | 212 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #946 | 220 |
| 2015 | #3,989 | 37 | #939 | 224 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | #1,057 | 187 |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | #1,043 | 184 |
| 2012 | #4,047 | 37 | #1,060 | 179 |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 | #1,116 | 165 |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 | #1,323 | 129 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | #1,290 | 136 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 | #1,251 | 139 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | #1,223 | 144 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #1,306 | 126 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #1,381 | 108 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #1,367 | 106 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #1,430 | 92 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #1,384 | 95 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #1,460 | 84 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #1,391 | 90 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #1,733 | 59 |
| 1998 | — | #1,987 | 48 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,991 | 45 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,986 | 44 |
| 1995 | — | #2,346 | 33 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,795 | 48 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,209 | 35 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,128 | 36 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,983 | 38 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,968 | 38 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,793 | 42 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,706 | 41 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,684 | 40 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | — | #1,544 | 42 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,098 | 25 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,470 | 42 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,815 | 31 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,766 | 32 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,765 | 32 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,788 | 31 |
| 1978 | — | #1,570 | 36 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,367 | 44 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,828 | 27 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,630 | 31 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,129 | 20 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,464 | 34 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,534 | 14 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,126 | 19 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,130 | 16 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,311 | 13 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,611 | 10 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
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| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,263 | 13 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Avi! It came in at #3,690, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1953, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Avi is popular in 1980
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Pennsylvania#658 · 1 in 15,323
- New York#682 · 1 in 10,231
Best ever in a state: #159 in District of Columbia, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #658 | 5 | 1 in 15,323 |
| New York | #682 | 11 | 1 in 10,231 |
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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 Avi
- 10 spots since 2024 (#842 → #832)
- 84 spots since 2020 (#916 → #832)
- 107 spots since 2015 (#939 → #832)
- Biggest jump: 131 spots in 2020 (#1,047 → #916)
- Biggest drop: 123 spots in 2019 (#924 → #1,047)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2022 at #720 (366 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,771 boys born in 2022 were named Avi (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,751 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 31.6% of all boys named Avi (1,926) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 49 | #2,263 (1956) | #3,014 |
| 1960s | 80 | #2,130 (1969) | #3,044 |
| 1970s | 270 | #1,367 (1977) | #1,895 |
| 1980s | 354 | #1,470 (1983) | #1,774 |
| 1990s | 424 | #1,733 (1999) | #2,013 |
| 2000s | 1,120 | #1,223 (2007) | #1,348 |
| 2010s | 1,926 | #924 (2018) | #1,043 |
| 2020s | 1,859 | #720 (2022) | #807 |
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.
Avi in 1980
Top boys' names in 1980
More about 1980
boys
1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 55,748 of them was named Avi, which outranked 75.8% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,726Tou33
- #1,726Tyshawn33
- #1,726Warner33
- #1,765Avi32
- #1,765Antwaun32
- #1,765Artie32
- #1,765Blaise32
- #1,808Angus31
- #1,808Antonino31
- #1,808Aram31
Tied with 42 names at #1,765; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.