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Avah

#1,436 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Ava

Avah has been given to 7,046 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #1,436 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 679 recorded.

Babies named Avah, 2025

1 in 22,100

Avah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ava

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Avah means

Avah is a variant of Ava.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Avah → Ava → Eva → Eva → Εὔᾱ → חַוָּה. The family’s meaning is “to live”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements ḥyw.

Origin, language, and formation

Avah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ava.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,046 girls were recorded with the name Avah between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 679 in 2018; its best national rank was #463 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #658 in 2020 to #1,436 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #656 in 2015 to #1,436 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Avah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,100
150 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,436
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,320 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,320 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avah was born before 2016 — so the typical Avah is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
59.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,034
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 59.3% of all recorded uses (4,176).

Is Avah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−240
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−778
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−780
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.34×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.1%
Peak was 2018 (679)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#463
2018

Spellings of Avah

Avah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 42.9% against Avah's 0.28%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Avah is used

Across 2016–2025, Avah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,299 girls, against 1 in 3,957 across all states with data. It was least common in Kansas (1 in 20,000).

577 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,299
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,515
  3. 3Alabama1 in 1,923
  4. 4Michigan1 in 1,961
  5. 5Georgia1 in 2,041
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 2,174
  7. 7Ohio1 in 2,500
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 2,778

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Avah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 68% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Avah around the world

Where Avah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2023
    #328
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2006–2016
    #585
    in 2016
  • France
    2012–2025
    #2,620
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Avah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,436
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 778
Best rank ever
#463
2018
Peak year
2018
679 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,046
Count in 2025
150

Names similar to Avah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Avah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Avah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Avah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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