Avenir

#3,854 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Abner

Avenir has been given to 453 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #3,854 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Avenir, 2025

1 in 118,000

Avenir over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avenir: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Abner

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Avenir means

Avenir is a form of Abner.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Avenir → Abner. The family’s meaning is “father of light”, recorded in English with the source elements Abner.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abner.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 453 boys were recorded with the name Avenir between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2013; its best national rank was #3,062 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,708 in 2020 to #3,854 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,413 in 2015 to #3,854 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 Avenir?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 118,000; 28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 61,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #3,854; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 82,069 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Avenir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avenir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avenirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avenir was born before 2017 — so the typical Avenir is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 453; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (239).

Is Avenir 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: +44; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +854; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +559; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.27×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 77.8%; Peak was 2013 (36)
Years since peak: 12; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,062; 2013

Spellings of Avenir

Avenir is not the most common spelling — Aven is, with 60.9% against Avenir's 9.7%.

Aven60.9%2,849
Ameir18.0%843
Aveer11.4%534
Avenir9.7%453

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 Avenir is used

Across 1910–2025, Avenir was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 133,639 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Washington1 in 33,333
2Oregon1 in 100,000
3California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Avenir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Avenir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,854
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 854
Best rank ever: #3,062; 2013
Peak year: 2013; 36 that year
First recorded: 2002
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 453
Count in 2025: 28

Names similar to Avenir

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

Averie Aveon Averi Aveer Avett Avel Avelino Avelardo Averey Aveion Averett Munir Averill Avedis Avetis Aveyon Averick Aven Averee Averil Mounir Anir Avet Averion

Sibling names for Avenir

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

For a sister

Kendyl Leigha Karleigh Cailyn Elin Jordynn Jaidyn Jaylen

For a brother

Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn Caesar Hamilton Jamarcus Tyshawn

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