Avian
#1,699 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Avian has been given to 2,225 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,699 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 107 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.
Babies named Avian, 2025
1 in 34,500
Avian over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Avian over time
In 2025, Avian went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Avian?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 34,500
- 96 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 17,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,699
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 23,938 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Avian sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 23,938 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Avians were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Avian was born before 2014 — so the typical Avian is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,896
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (754).
Is Avian 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
- +649
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +174
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +285
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.32×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 89.7%
- Peak was 2022 (107)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.8% average annual change
Spellings of Avian
Avian is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 32.7% against Avian's 0.05%.
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 Avian is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Avian was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 20,779 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 12,500
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
- 3California1 in 16,667
- 4Massachusetts1 in 25,000
- 5New York1 in 25,000
- 6Florida1 in 33,333
- 7New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 8Oklahoma1 in 33,333
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.
Where Avian is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Avian was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Avian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Avian around the world
Where Avian 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 & Wales2018–2018#3,959in 2018
- Canada2019–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
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.
Avian by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Avian
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Avian
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.