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Avigdor vs Avion

American parents have registered 2,996 Avions since 1880, against 500 Avigdors. Avion is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avigdor 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 44 years in which either name was published, Avion for 42 years and Avigdor for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Avigdor Avion
Total US births 5002,996
Most in one year 33140
Babies in 2025 2260
Estimated living today 4903,000
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20022022
Best rank 2,817th boys1,403rd boys
Rank in 2025 4,539th2,304th
First recorded 19841976
Girls / boys 0 / 500304 / 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 Avigdors alive today are over 15; half the Avions are over 13. That is 2 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: Avigdor and Avion.