Avan
About 1,051 American babies have been named Avan since 1923, most of them around 2012. In 2025 it ranked 3,848th. About 1,000 Avans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Avan boys named Avan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,051
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 1,657th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,848th
- First recorded
- 1923
- Girls / boys
- 57 / 994
How old the living Avans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,051 babies given the name since 1923, about 1,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 870 of them are children and 6 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Avans
- Avan Jogia (born 1992)Canadian actor, singer and director
People named Avan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Avan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Avan is most concentrated in California (4.6×), Texas (4.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular boys’ names the year Avan peaked:
Avan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Avan | 27 | 3,451st |
| Switzerland boys | Avan | 16 | 1,217th |
| France boys | Avan | 5 | 6,011th |
| France girls | Avan | 5 | 1,038th |
| England and Wales girls | Avan | 3 | 5,061st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Avan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Avan | 12 | 0.001% | 928th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Avan | 4 | 0.001% | 809th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Avan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 443rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Avan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Avan | 13 | 15 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Avan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.