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Avila vs Avion

American parents have registered 2,996 Avions since 1880, against 801 Avilas. But in 2025 it was Avila that was commoner, 67 babies to 60.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avila 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 43 years in which either name was published, Avion for 40 years and Avila for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Avila Avion
Total US births 8012,996
Most in one year 90140
Babies in 2025 6760
Estimated living today 7903,000
Median age today 513
Peak year 20242022
Best rank 2,118th girls1,403rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,583rd2,304th
First recorded 19251976
Girls / boys 801 / 0304 / 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 Avilas are over 5. That is 8 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: Avila and Avion.