Avan
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #10,545 · #3,848 for boys in 2025, 28 births
Given to boys 94.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 93 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 994since 1923
Avan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,848 | 28 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,793 | 29 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,347 | 35 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,100 | 39 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,497 | 32 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,136 | 36 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,851 | 43 | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #2,893 | 41 |
| 2017 | — | #2,186 | 61 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,935 | 40 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,276 | 58 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,021 | 67 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,999 | 68 |
| 2010 | — | #2,511 | 49 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,551 | 30 | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #4,520 | 20 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
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| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
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| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1923
The first year at least five boys were named Avan! It came in at #4,239, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 55 spots since 2024 (#3,793 → #3,848)
- 712 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #3,848)
- 1,572 spots since 2015 (#2,276 → #3,848)
Rise & fade · boys
89 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2012 at #1,657 (93 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,397
- Highest: 1 in 20,397 boys born in 2012 were named Avan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,003 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 58.6% of all boys named Avan (582) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,239 (1923) | #4,239 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,763 (1931) | #3,763 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,733 (1947) | #3,733 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,734 (1952) | #3,734 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 10 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,809 |
| 1980s | 8 | #4,853 (1986) | #4,853 |
| 1990s | 10 | #9,015 (1996) | #9,323 |
| 2000s | 165 | #3,511 (2007) | #4,645 |
| 2010s | 582 | #1,657 (2012) | #2,350 |
| 2020s | 199 | #3,100 (2022) | #3,454 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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