Avery
The girl's name Avery has been in the national records since 1880, with 236,886 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 37th. About 230,000 Averys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Avery boys named Avery
Girls and boys called Avery
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Avery crossed from boys to girls in 1998, and has stayed there for 28 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 82% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 118 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 236,886
- Estimated living today
- 230,000
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 14th
- Rank in 2025
- 37th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 170,006 / 66,880
How old the living Averys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 236,886 babies given the name since 1880, about 230,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 164,000 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old French, a surname
From Anglo-Norman Averay, Auveray, Alverey, from Latin Alveredus, Aluredus, from Old English Ælfræd, from ælf (“elf”) and ræd (“counsel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Averys
- Avery Brundage (1887–1975)president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972
- Avery Brooks (born 1948)American actor and director
- Avery Bradley (born 1990)American basketball player
- Avery Dulles (1918–2008)Catholic cardinal
- Avery John (born 1975)Trinidad and Tobago footballer
- Avery Johnson (born 1965)American basketball player and coach
- Avery Corman (born 1935)American writer
- Avery Skinner (born 1999)American volleyball player
People named Avery with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Avery is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Avery is most concentrated in Nevada (1.8×), Colorado (1.7×), Utah (1.7×), Idaho (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Avery peaked:
Avery elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Avery | 1,364 | 261st |
| England and Wales boys | Avery | 1,079 | 338th |
| Ireland girls | Avery | 199 | 173rd |
| Scotland girls | Avery | 146 | 223rd |
| Scotland boys | Avery | 88 | 278th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Avery | 79 | 140th |
| Ireland boys | Avery | 77 | 329th |
| France boys | Avery | 50 | 5,295th |
| France girls | Avery | 50 | 7,094th |
| Switzerland boys | Avery | 38 | 971st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Avery | 35 | 226th |
| Switzerland girls | Avery | 34 | 989th |
| Belgium boys | Avery | 5 | 1,405th |
| Belgium girls | Avery | 5 | 1,289th |
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.
Avery: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Avery | 32 | 0.003% | 823rd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Avery | 29 | 0.002% | 744th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Avery | 6 | 0.001% | 627th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Avery | 5 | 0.001% | 656th |
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.
Avery by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Avery 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 | Avery | 8 | 13 |
| Finland boys | Avery | 5 | 12 |
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
Avery 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.