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Avner

#5,633 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Abner

Avner has been given to 380 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #5,633 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Avner, 2025

1 in 207,000

Avner over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avner: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Abner

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Avner means

Avner is a form of Abner.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Avner → Abner. The family’s meaning is “father of light”, recorded in English with the source elements Abner.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abner.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 380 boys were recorded with the name Avner between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,889 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,078 in 2020 to #5,633 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,889 in 2015 to #5,633 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 Avner?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,633
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avner 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avners were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
374
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (187).

Is Avner 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
+294
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,445
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,744
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.3%
Peak was 2015 (27)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,889
2015

Spellings of Avner

Avner is not the most common spelling — Xavier is, with 26.1% against Avner's 0.06%.

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 Avner is used

Across 1910–2025, Avner was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,389,808 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Avner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Avner around the world

Where Avner 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
    2014–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2025
    #5,325
    in 2025

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

Avner by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,633
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,445
Best rank ever
#3,889
2015
Peak year
2015
27 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
380
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Avner

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

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Sibling names for Avner

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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