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Aviv

#3,248 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Spring

Aviv has been given to 975 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #3,248 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 40 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% boys, 24% girls all-time.

Babies named Aviv, 2025

1 in 92,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Aviv went to 31% girls and 69% boys.

19762025

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.

Aviv: meaning, origin, and history

Spring

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aviv means

Aviv means “spring”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aviv is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ави́в.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 741 boys were recorded with the name Aviv between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,048 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,655 in 2020 to #3,248 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,906 in 2015 to #3,248 in 2025.

In the United States, 234 girls were recorded with the name Aviv between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,880 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,032 in 2020 to #6,880 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,059 in 2015 to #6,880 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 Aviv?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,248
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aviv 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aviv. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avivs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aviv was born before 2013 — so the typical Aviv is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
741
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (227).

Is Aviv 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
−200
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+407
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,658
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.89×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.0%
Peak was 2024 (40)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,048
2024

Spellings of Aviv

Aviv is not the most common spelling — David is, with 85.2% against Aviv's 0.02%.

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 Aviv is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Aviv was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 193,552 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Aviv has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Aviv is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Aviv was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,000,798 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Aviv has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aviv around the world

Where Aviv 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
    2010–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2019–2023
    #4,933
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aviv by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,248
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 407
Best rank ever
#3,048
2024
Peak year
2024
40 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
741
Count in 2025
36

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,880
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,152
Best rank ever
#6,880
2025
Peak year
2007
16 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
234
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Aviv

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

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Sibling names for Aviv

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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