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Averey vs Averie

American parents have registered 13,717 Averies since 1880, against 677 Avereys. Averie is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Averey 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 1994, when Averey had 13 and Averie had 24.

Side by side

  Averey Averie
Total US births 67713,717
Most in one year 63871
Babies in 2025 7410
Estimated living today 67014,000
Median age today 1310
Peak year 20132014
Best rank 3,076th girls380th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd701st
First recorded 19941985
Girls / boys 471 / 20613,448 / 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 Avereys alive today are over 13; half the Averies are over 10. That is 3 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: Averey and Averie.