Avah
#1,436 for girls in 2025, 150 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 679 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,046since 1923
Avah over time
Rank among girls' names. Avah has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,436 | 150 |
| 2024 | #1,196 | 198 |
| 2023 | #1,064 | 234 |
| 2022 | #940 | 288 |
| 2021 | #822 | 338 |
| 2020 | #657 | 438 |
| 2019 | #659 | 444 |
| 2018 | #463 | 679 |
| 2017 | #578 | 522 |
| 2016 | #706 | 406 |
| 2015 | #656 | 438 |
| 2014 | #706 | 398 |
| 2013 | #788 | 346 |
| 2012 | #814 | 329 |
| 2011 | #887 | 294 |
| 2010 | #839 | 320 |
| 2009 | #924 | 289 |
| 2008 | #977 | 274 |
| 2007 | #1,109 | 233 |
| 2006 | #1,359 | 170 |
| 2005 | #1,838 | 106 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 |
| 2003 | #4,220 | 31 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
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| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Avah! It came in at #3,971, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1998, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Avah
- 240 spots since 2024 (#1,196 → #1,436)
- 779 spots since 2020 (#657 → #1,436)
- 780 spots since 2015 (#656 → #1,436)
- Biggest jump: 132 spots in 2008 (#1,109 → #977)
- Biggest drop: 196 spots in 2019 (#463 → #659)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2018 at #463 (679 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2008–2022
- Highest: 1 in 2,505 girls born in 2018 were named Avah (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,715 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 59.3% of all girls named Avah (4,176) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 7 | #3,971 (1923) | #3,971 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,411 (1932) | #4,411 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 18 | #7,239 (1999) | #10,681 |
| 2000s | 1,194 | #924 (2009) | #4,009 |
| 2010s | 4,176 | #463 (2018) | #710 |
| 2020s | 1,646 | #657 (2020) | #1,019 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Avah in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
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1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 5,555 of them was named Avah, which outranked 95.8% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.