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
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 93 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 994since 1923
Avan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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.
See more about Avan
- 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)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2012 at #1,657 (93 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 58.6% of all boys named Avan (582) were born in this decade
- 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.
Avan in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 293,178 of them was named Avan, which outranked 24.3% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,347Zykeriah7
- #13,347Zyriana7
- #13,347Zyrianna7
- #14,824Avan6
- #14,824Aalani6
- #14,824Aaleiyah6
- #14,824Aaliyan6
- #16,764Aailiyah5
- #16,764Aalanah5
- #16,764Aalayna5
Tied with 1,939 names at #14,824; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 27,930 of them was named Avan, which outranked 86.1% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,988Rider69
- #1,988Robbie69
- #1,988Teddy69
- #1,999Avan68
- #1,999Aizen68
- #1,999Angus68
- #1,999Arion68
- #2,017Amaury67
- #2,017Aric67
- #2,017Benaiah67
Tied with 17 names at #1,999; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.