girls:
57 births since 2005
#5659 (1st percentile)
boys:
937 births since 1923
#3654 (20th percentile)
overall:
994 births since 1923
#6745 (13th percentile)
The name Avan is the #6,745 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 994 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 12.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,654 (20.3% percentile) for all time with 937 births since 1923. For girls, it ranks #5,659 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 57 births since 2005.
Avan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for boys and 2005 for girls). Birth data for Avan is available in 31 out of the 101 years between 1923 and 2023 (31 years for boys and 9 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Avan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Avan reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 9.8% percentile (ranked #812) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 46 births per million (ranked 9.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Avan ranks #881 for boys (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 41.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Avan reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #957) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Avan".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Avan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.1% confident that Avan is pronounced as AY-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-VAN, at 17.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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