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Avani

#806 in 2025Girls' name

Earth

Avani has been given to 4,303 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #806 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 339 recorded.

Babies named Avani, 2025

1 in 9,780

Avani over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avani: meaning, origin, and history

Earth

Sanskrit

What Avani means

Avani means “earth”, associated with avani.

Origin, language, and formation

Avani is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,246 girls were recorded with the name Avani between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 339 in 2025; its best national rank was #806 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,042 in 2020 to #806 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,600 in 2015 to #806 in 2025.

In the United States, 57 boys were recorded with the name Avani between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,992 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,733 in 2020 to #8,992 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Avani?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,780
339 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,740
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#806
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,780 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avani 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,780 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avanis were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,246
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.5% of all recorded uses (1,633).

Is Avani 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
+192
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+236
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+794
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.53×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (339)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#806
2025

Spellings of Avani

Avani is not the most common spelling — Ava is, with 47.1% against Avani's 0.58%.

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 Avani is used

Across 2016–2025, Avani was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 7,521 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 33,333).

320 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 5,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,263
  3. 3Illinois1 in 5,882
  4. 4Arizona1 in 6,250
  5. 5California1 in 6,250
  6. 6Florida1 in 6,250
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 6,250
  8. 8Washington1 in 6,250

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.

Avani around the world

Where Avani 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
    1996–2025
    #894
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2024
    #6,717
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2011
    #514
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Avani

People whose public names include Avani, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Avani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#806
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 236
Best rank ever
#806
2025
Peak year
2025
339 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,246
Count in 2025
339

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,992
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,741
Best rank ever
#8,992
2025
Peak year
2022
8 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
57
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Avani

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

AvalonAvayaAvalynAvaryAvahShaniAvayahAvalynnAvariEmaniAvarieAvaleeElaniAvaaniAvanaMelaniAmaniAylaniDyaniKianiMalaniSianiLaniAilani

Names with a curve like Avani

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

JiannaAnaiahTallulahZoyaArayaEmiSoleilLeilanyKeziahNyomiTaytumJenesis

Sibling names for Avani

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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