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Avia

#1,945 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Abijah

Avia has been given to 1,948 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #1,945 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Avia, 2025

1 in 33,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Abijah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Avia means

Avia is a form of Abijah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Avia → Abijah. The family’s meaning is “my father is Yahweh”, recorded in the naming reference for Abijah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abijah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,948 girls were recorded with the name Avia between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,830 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,082 in 2020 to #1,945 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,939 in 2015 to #1,945 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.

How common is Avia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,500
99 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,945
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,212 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,212 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avia was born before 2015 — so the typical Avia is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,931
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (745).

Is Avia 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
+616
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+137
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.6%
Peak was 2016 (113)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,830
2016

Spellings of Avia

Avia is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 19.6% against Avia's 0.04%.

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 Avia is used

Across 2016–2025, Avia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 24,215 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 12,500
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

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.

Avia around the world

Where Avia 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
    2006–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Avia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,945
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 137
Best rank ever
#1,830
2016
Peak year
2016
113 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,948
Count in 2025
99

Names similar to Avia

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

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Sibling names for Avia

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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