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Averie vs Avett

American parents have registered 13,717 Averies since 1880, against 824 Avetts. Averie is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Averie Avett

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 2019, when Averie had 669 and Avett had 80.

Side by side

  Averie Avett
Total US births 13,717824
Most in one year 87186
Babies in 2025 41029
Estimated living today 14,000820
Median age today 107
Peak year 20142018
Best rank 380th girls1,901st boys
Rank in 2025 701st3,757th
First recorded 19852009
Girls / boys 13,448 / 26954 / 770

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 Averies alive today are over 10; half the Avetts are over 7. That is 3 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: Averie and Avett.