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 | ||
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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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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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 189,008 of them was named Avan, which outranked 41.9% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,806Zuleimy10
- #9,806Zuly10
- #9,806Zylee10
- #10,545Avan9
- #10,545Aadaya9
- #10,545Aafiya9
- #10,545Aalaya9
- #11,427Aada8
- #11,427Aadhvika8
- #11,427Aailyah8
Tied with 881 names at #10,545; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 44,297 of them was named Avan, which outranked 79.5% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,848Wilber42
- #2,848Yasser42
- #2,848Ziyon42
- #2,893Avan41
- #2,893Advait41
- #2,893Axtyn41
- #2,893Bless41
- #2,943Aadi40
- #2,943Adil40
- #2,943Akari40
Tied with 49 names at #2,893; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.