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Avo

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Literal meaning not recorded

Avo has been given to 184 babies in the U.S. since 1896. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Avo, 1936

1 in 346,000

Avo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2017, Avo went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18962017

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.

Avo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Avo means

Avo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Avo is used in Old Saxon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 174 girls were recorded with the name Avo between 1896 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,299 in 1896.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Avo between 2004 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2004; its best national rank was #11,521 in 2004.

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.

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How common is Avo?

Avo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1936, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1936
1 in 346,000
6 of 2,077,561 births
Among girls only
1 in 173,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1936
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
240,010 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avo 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 1936 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 240,010 children born in 1936 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avo was born before 1918 — so the typical Avo is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1910s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Avo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (13)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,299
1896

Where Avo is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Avo was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 381,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2Kentucky1 in —
  3. 3Tennessee1 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. Avo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Avo is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Avo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Avo by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,299
1896
Peak year
1915
13 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
174
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,521
2004
Peak year
2004
5 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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