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Avie vs Avion

American parents have registered 2,996 Avions since 1880, against 1,774 Avies. Avion is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avie against Avion, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avie Avion

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 119 years in which either name was published, Avie for 78 years and Avion for 41 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Avie Avion
Total US births 1,7742,996
Most in one year 70140
Babies in 2025 5460
Estimated living today 1,1003,000
Median age today 913
Peak year 20232022
Best rank 2,517th girls1,403rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,211th2,304th
First recorded 18831976
Girls / boys 1,758 / 16304 / 2,692

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 Avions alive today are over 13; half the Avies are over 9. That is 4 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: Avie and Avion.