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Avielle vs Avion

American parents have registered 2,996 Avions since 1880, against 654 Avielles. Avion is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avielle 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

Avion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Avielle had 75 and Avion had 89.

Side by side

  Avielle Avion
Total US births 6542,996
Most in one year 85140
Babies in 2025 4260
Estimated living today 6503,000
Median age today 613
Peak year 20202022
Best rank 2,135th girls1,403rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,577th2,304th
First recorded 20011976
Girls / boys 648 / 6304 / 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 Avielles are over 6. That is 7 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: Avielle and Avion.