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Avraham vs Avri

American parents have registered 4,992 Avrahams since 1880, against 606 Avris. Avraham is still ahead, with 214 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avraham against Avri, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avraham Avri

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

Avraham has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Avraham had 138 and Avri had 62.

Side by side

  Avraham Avri
Total US births 4,992606
Most in one year 22062
Babies in 2025 21414
Estimated living today 4,900600
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20242015
Best rank 1,013th boys3,059th girls
Rank in 2025 1,034th7,491st
First recorded 19541997
Girls / boys 0 / 4,992570 / 36

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 Avrahams alive today are over 14; half the Avris are over 11. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Avraham and Avri.