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Avianna vs Aviva

American parents have registered 9,677 Aviannas since 1880, against 3,685 Avivas. Avianna is still ahead, with 491 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avianna Aviva

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 84 years in which either name was published, Aviva for 56 years and Avianna for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Avianna Aviva
Total US births 9,6773,685
Most in one year 881131
Babies in 2025 491131
Estimated living today 9,6003,600
Median age today 718
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 354th girls1,592nd girls
Rank in 2025 595th1,592nd
First recorded 19891935
Girls / boys 9,677 / 03,685 / 0

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 Avivas alive today are over 18; half the Aviannas are over 7. That is 11 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 Avianna Aviva
England and Wales 14626

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: Avianna and Aviva.