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Aveon vs Avery

American parents have registered 236,886 Averys since 1880, against 515 Aveons. Avery is still ahead, with 6,423 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aveon against Avery, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aveon Avery

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

Avery has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Aveon had 28 and Avery had 3,976.

Side by side

  Aveon Avery
Total US births 515236,886
Most in one year 3711,861
Babies in 2025 116,423
Estimated living today 510230,000
Median age today 1612
Peak year 20082014
Best rank 3,103rd boys14th girls
Rank in 2025 7,194th37th
First recorded 19921880
Girls / boys 20 / 495170,006 / 66,880

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 Aveons alive today are over 16; half the Averys are over 12. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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