Avian
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · #1,699 for boys in 2025, 96 births
Given to boys 85.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,896since 1976
Avian 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 | — | #1,699 | 96 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #2,345 | 60 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,954 | 79 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #1,626 | 107 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,799 | 87 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #1,872 | 79 |
| 2019 | — | #2,042 | 71 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,606 | 102 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #1,661 | 95 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,754 | 88 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #1,828 | 81 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,989 | 69 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #2,238 | 58 |
| 2011 | — | #2,346 | 54 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #2,118 | 63 |
| 2009 | — | #1,975 | 71 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #2,034 | 68 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #2,062 | 64 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #2,265 | 52 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #2,489 | 44 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | #2,847 | 34 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #5,561 | 6 |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Avian! It came in at #4,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1983, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Avian
- 646 spots since 2024 (#2,345 → #1,699)
- 173 spots since 2020 (#1,872 → #1,699)
- 284 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #1,699)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2018 at #1,606 (102 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,318 boys born in 2022 were named Avian (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,792 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,606 in 2018, was only 1 in 17,805 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.8% of all boys named Avian (754) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1991, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #4,935 (1976) | #4,935 |
| 1980s | 40 | #4,811 (1989) | #5,783 |
| 1990s | 107 | #3,849 (1998) | #5,593 |
| 2000s | 481 | #1,975 (2009) | #2,504 |
| 2010s | 754 | #1,606 (2018) | #1,957 |
| 2020s | 508 | #1,626 (2022) | #1,883 |
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.
Avian in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 35,171 of them was named Avian, which outranked 83.7% 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).
- #2,317Yisrael55
- #2,317Zacharias55
- #2,317Zyler55
- #2,346Avian54
- #2,346Antione54
- #2,346Arron54
- #2,346Beckam54
- #2,376Aariz53
- #2,376Arik53
- #2,376Bastian53
Tied with 29 names at #2,346; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.