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Ave

#9,525 in 2025Girls' name

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Ave has been given to 939 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #9,525 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Ave, 2025

1 in 332,000

Ave over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ave: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ave means

Ave means “open”, associated with ava.

Origin, language, and formation

Ave is used in Estonian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 939 girls were recorded with the name Ave between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,522 in 1944.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,664 in 2020 to #9,525 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,016 in 2015 to #9,525 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 Ave?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,525
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ave 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ave. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aves were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ave was born before 1997 — so the typical Ave is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
807
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (188).

Is Ave 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
−3,096
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,861
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−509
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.3%
Peak was 2007 (31)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,522
1944

Where Ave is used

Across 1910–2025, Ave was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,464,351 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Ave has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ave around the world

Where Ave 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.

  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1956–1956
    #540
    in 1956

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ave by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,525
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,861
Best rank ever
#2,522
1944
Peak year
2007
31 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
939
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Ave

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

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Sibling names for Ave

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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