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Aviana vs Aviv

American parents have registered 8,863 Avianas since 1880, against 975 Avivs. Aviana is still ahead, with 301 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aviana Aviv

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 45 years in which either name was published, Aviana for 41 years and Aviv for 4 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Aviana Aviv
Total US births 8,863975
Most in one year 84556
Babies in 2025 30152
Estimated living today 8,800960
Median age today 811
Peak year 20162024
Best rank 393rd girls3,045th boys
Rank in 2025 887th3,240th
First recorded 19811976
Girls / boys 8,863 / 0234 / 741

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 Avivs alive today are over 11; half the Avianas are over 8. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Aviana Aviv
England and Wales 24715

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: Aviana and Aviv.