Averi vs Averil

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Averi Averil

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 96 years in which either name was published, Averi for 50 years and Averil for 46 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1895–1964 Averil ahead
• 1969–1970 Averi ahead
• 1971–1973 Averil ahead
• 1974–1975 Averi ahead
• 1977 Averil ahead
• 1978–2025 Averi ahead

Side by side

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 Averils alive today are over 54; half the Averis are over 12. That is 42 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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