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Avani vs Avari

American parents have registered 4,303 Avanis since 1880, against 1,092 Avaris. Avani is still ahead, with 347 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avani against Avari, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avani Avari

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

Of the 50 years in which either name was published, Avani for 49 years and Avari for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Avani Avari
Total US births 4,3031,092
Most in one year 34782
Babies in 2025 34732
Estimated living today 4,3001,100
Median age today 913
Peak year 20252006
Best rank 805th girls2,438th girls
Rank in 2025 805th6,546th
First recorded 19752000
Girls / boys 4,246 / 57891 / 201

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Avaris alive today are over 13; half the Avanis are over 9. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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