girls:
1.5k births since 1949
#4201 (26th percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1921
#2523 (45th percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1921
#4305 (44th percentile)
The name Aven is the #4,305 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,056 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 44.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,523 (45.0% percentile) for all time with 2,507 births since 1921. For girls, it ranks #4,201 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,549 births since 1949.
Aven first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for boys and 1949 for girls). Birth data for Aven is available in 45 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (41 years for boys and 31 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 Aven has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (61.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 78.4% of babies named Aven were boys.
For boys, Aven reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 19.3% percentile (ranked #735) with 99 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 99 births per million (ranked 19.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aven is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #735 (19.3% percentile) with 99 births per million.
For girls, Aven reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 14.5% percentile (ranked #801) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 73 births per million (ranked 14.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aven ranks #902 for girls (4.8% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 39.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aven".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Aven. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.6% confident that Aven is pronounced as AY-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-vihn, at 17.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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