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Avionna vs Aviva

American parents have registered 3,685 Avivas since 1880, against 919 Avionnas. Aviva is still ahead, with 131 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avionna 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

Aviva has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1935 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Avionna had 73 and Aviva had 105.

Side by side

  Avionna Aviva
Total US births 9193,685
Most in one year 73131
Babies in 2025 20131
Estimated living today 9103,600
Median age today 1018
Peak year 20162025
Best rank 2,479th girls1,592nd girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th1,592nd
First recorded 19951935
Girls / boys 919 / 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 Avionnas are over 10. 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: Avionna and Aviva.