girls:
159k births since 1890
#249 (96th percentile)
boys:
64.3k births since 1880
#414 (91st percentile)
overall:
223.3k births since 1880
#357 (95th percentile)
The name Avery is the #357 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 223,349 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #249 (95.7% percentile) for all time with 159,008 births since 1890. For boys, it ranks #414 (91.0% percentile) for all time with 64,341 births since 1880.
Avery has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1890 for girls).
The name Avery has been given predominantly to girls, with 71.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 80.1% of babies named Avery were girls. Interestingly, until around 2001, the name was more popular for boys (68.2% boys from 1880 to 2000), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (78.1% girls from 2001 to 2023).
For girls, Avery reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 98.8% percentile (ranked #12) with 4,764 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 4,896 births per million (ranked 98.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Avery ranks #28 for girls (97.1% percentile) with 3,350 births per million, which is 68.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Avery reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 80.4% percentile (ranked #180) with 1,111 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 1,114 births per million (ranked 80.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Avery ranks #236 for boys (74.2% percentile) with 795 births per million, which is 71.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Avery".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Avery. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Avery is pronounced as AY-ver-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-vree, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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