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Avi vs Avielle

American parents have registered 6,921 Avis since 1880, against 654 Avielles. Avi is still ahead, with 313 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avi against Avielle, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avi Avielle

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

Avi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1949 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Avi had 210 and Avielle had 75.

Side by side

  Avi Avielle
Total US births 6,921654
Most in one year 42585
Babies in 2025 31342
Estimated living today 6,800650
Median age today 116
Peak year 20222020
Best rank 720th boys2,135th girls
Rank in 2025 832nd3,577th
First recorded 19492001
Girls / boys 834 / 6,087648 / 6

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 Avis alive today are over 11; half the Avielles are over 6. That is 5 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Avi Avielle
England and Wales 79028

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