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Averill

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English surname transferred into given-name use

Averill has been given to 338 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% boys, 33% girls all-time.

Babies named Averill, 2014

1 in 741,000

Averill over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Averill over time

In 2014, Averill went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19122014

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Averill: meaning, origin, and history

English surname transferred into given-name use

English surname transfer

What Averill means

Averill is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Averill is used in English (Rare).

The naming story behind Averill

Averill is a given name adopted from English surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 228 boys were recorded with the name Averill between 1913 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1987; its best national rank was #2,853 in 1913.

In the United States, 110 girls were recorded with the name Averill between 1912 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1926; its best national rank was #3,009 in 1912.

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.

How common is Averill?

Averill had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Averill 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Averill. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Averills were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Averill was born before 1969 — so the typical Averill is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
135
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1980s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Averill 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (14)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,853
1913

Where Averill is used

Across 1910–2025, Averill was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 439,051 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 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. Averill has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Averill around the world

Where Averill 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.

  • South Australia
    1944–1944
    #345
    in 1944

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Averill by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,853
1913
Peak year
1987
14 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
228
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,009
1912
Peak year
1926
8 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Averill

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

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Sibling names for Averill

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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