girls:
327.5k births since 1880
#117 (98th percentile)
boys:
336 births since 1927
#4250 (7th percentile)
overall:
327.8k births since 1880
#228 (97th percentile)
The name Ava is the #228 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 327,819 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #117 (98.0% percentile) for all time with 327,483 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,250 (7.3% percentile) for all time with 336 births since 1927.
Ava has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1927 for boys).
The name Ava has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ava reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 99.8% percentile (ranked #3) with 8,077 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 8,530 births per million (ranked 99.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ava ranks #8 for girls (99.3% percentile) with 5,535 births per million, which is 64.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ava reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #817) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ava ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 16.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ava".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ava. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.4% confident that Ava is pronounced as AY-vuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-vuh, at 15.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EY1 V AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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