Avani
#805 for girls in 2025, 339 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 339 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,246since 1975
Avani over time
Rank among girls' names. Avani has never cracked the top 800 here.
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 | #805 | 339 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #998 | 259 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #839 | 326 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #1,138 | 214 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #1,006 | 254 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #1,042 | 241 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #1,941 | 101 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,633 | 130 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,607 | 135 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,580 | 140 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,600 | 134 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,547 | 141 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #1,487 | 149 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,432 | 159 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #1,186 | 203 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,352 | 173 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #1,502 | 152 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,554 | 148 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,971 | 104 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,419 | 77 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,407 | 73 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,481 | 68 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,497 | 65 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,540 | 60 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
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| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Avani! It came in at #7,173, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Avani is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#1,121 · 1 in 8,141
- Illinois#1,340 · 1 in 9,735
- New York#1,461 · 1 in 10,725
- California#2,628 · 1 in 29,347
- Texas#2,687 · 1 in 27,696
Best ever in a state: #319 in New Mexico, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #1,121 | 5 | 1 in 8,141 |
| Illinois | #1,340 | 7 | 1 in 9,735 |
| New York | #1,461 | 9 | 1 in 10,725 |
| California | #2,628 | 8 | 1 in 29,347 |
| Texas | #2,687 | 6 | 1 in 27,696 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Avani
- 193 spots since 2024 (#998 → #805)
- 237 spots since 2020 (#1,042 → #805)
- 795 spots since 2015 (#1,600 → #805)
- Biggest jump: 299 spots in 2023 (#1,138 → #839)
- Biggest drop: 159 spots in 2024 (#839 → #998)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2025 at #805 (339 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,741 girls born in 2025 were named Avani (0.02%)
- 38.5% of all girls named Avani (1,633) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 45 | #5,092 (1979) | #6,481 |
| 1980s | 92 | #4,517 (1980) | #6,854 |
| 1990s | 160 | #3,374 (1999) | #6,436 |
| 2000s | 851 | #1,502 (2009) | #2,303 |
| 2010s | 1,465 | #1,186 (2011) | #1,537 |
| 2020s | 1,633 | #805 (2025) | #971 |
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.
Avani in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 24,691 of them was named Avani, which outranked 87.9% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,396Shaelynn78
- #2,396Shylah78
- #2,396Tala78
- #2,419Avani77
- #2,419Alyana77
- #2,419Aminata77
- #2,419Anahy77
- #2,438Addysen76
- #2,438Aeryn76
- #2,438Ami76
Tied with 18 names at #2,419; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.