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Avah vs Avajade

American parents have registered 7,046 Avahs since 1880, against 21 Avajades. Avah is still ahead, with 150 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avah against Avajade, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avah Avajade

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Avah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Avah had 522 and Avajade had 11.

Side by side

  Avah Avajade
Total US births 7,04621
Most in one year 67911
Babies in 2025 150under 5
Estimated living today 7,00020
Median age today 98
Peak year 20182017
Best rank 463rd girls9,341st girls
Rank in 2025 1,436thunranked
First recorded 19232017
Girls / boys 7,046 / 021 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Avah and Avajade.