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Averee vs Averie

American parents have registered 13,717 Averies since 1880, against 1,195 Averees. Averie is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Averee against Averie, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Averee Averie

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

Averie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1985 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Averee had 16 and Averie had 55.

Side by side

  Averee Averie
Total US births 1,19513,717
Most in one year 70871
Babies in 2025 17410
Estimated living today 1,20014,000
Median age today 1210
Peak year 20162014
Best rank 2,761st girls380th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th701st
First recorded 19921985
Girls / boys 1,144 / 5113,448 / 269

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 Averees alive today are over 12; half the Averies are over 10. That is 2 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: Averee and Averie.