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Avi

#832 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Father

Avi has been given to 6,921 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #832 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 366 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.

Babies named Avi, 2025

1 in 11,200

Avi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Avi over time

In 2025, Avi went to 5% girls and 95% boys.

19492025

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.

Avi: meaning, origin, and history

Father

Hebrew

What Avi means

Avi means “father”, associated with Ávi.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew אבי (Ávi, “father”), chiefly as a diminutive of אַבְרָהָם (Avrahám, “Abraham, lit. father of a multitude or exalted father”) and אַבְנֵר (Avnér, “Abner, lit. father of light”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Avi (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Avi is used in English and Old Saxon. Its origins include Hebrew.

Avi comes through Hebrew אבי.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include אַבְרָהָם.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,087 boys were recorded with the name Avi between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 366 in 2022; its best national rank was #720 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #916 in 2020 to #832 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #939 in 2015 to #832 in 2025.

In the United States, 834 girls were recorded with the name Avi between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,865 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,226 in 2020 to #6,879 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,999 in 2015 to #6,879 in 2025.

How common is Avi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,200
297 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,750
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#832
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,738 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avi 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,738 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avi was born before 2014 — so the typical Avi is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,082
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (1,926).

Is Avi 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
+10
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+84
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+107
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.1%
Peak was 2022 (366)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#720
2022

Where Avi is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Avi was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 1,667 boys, against 1 in 5,692 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

260 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 1,667
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 2,500
  3. 3New York1 in 2,778
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 2,857
  5. 5Maryland1 in 3,704
  6. 6Washington1 in 3,846
  7. 7Illinois1 in 4,348
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 4,762

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.

Geographically, Avi is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 89% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Where Avi is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Avi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 442,944 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Utah1 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. Avi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Avi around the world

Where Avi 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
    #593
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #1,588
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Avi

People whose public names include Avi, 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.

Avi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Avi. Linked forms have their own page here.

AvyAvieAvram

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Avi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#832
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 84
Best rank ever
#720
2022
Peak year
2022
366 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,087
Count in 2025
297

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,879
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,653
Best rank ever
#2,865
2022
Peak year
2022
59 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
834
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Avi

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

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Names with a curve like Avi

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

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Sibling names for Avi

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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