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Avri vs Avry

American parents have registered 1,085 Avrys since 1880, against 606 Avris. Avry is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avri against Avry, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avri Avry

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 31 years in which either name was published, Avry for 28 years and Avri for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Avri Avry
Total US births 6061,085
Most in one year 6264
Babies in 2025 1419
Estimated living today 6001,100
Median age today 1115
Peak year 20152005
Best rank 3,059th girls3,876th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st8,860th
First recorded 19971989
Girls / boys 570 / 36573 / 512

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 Avrys alive today are over 15; half the Avris are over 11. That is 4 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: Avri and Avry.