girls:
790 births since 1979
#4926 (14th percentile)
boys:
5.5k births since 1949
#1609 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.3k births since 1949
#3427 (56th percentile)
The name Avi is the #3,427 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,287 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 55.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,609 (64.9% percentile) for all time with 5,497 births since 1949. For girls, it ranks #4,926 (13.8% percentile) for all time with 790 births since 1979.
Avi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for boys and 1979 for girls). Birth data for Avi is available in 70 out of the 75 years between 1949 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 28 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 Avi has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 88.3% of babies named Avi were boys.
For boys, Avi reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 36.4% percentile (ranked #588) with 195 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 195 births per million (ranked 36.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Avi is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #590 (35.3% percentile) with 189 births per million.
For girls, Avi reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #905) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 32 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Avi ranks #906 for girls (4.3% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 81.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Avi".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Avi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.3% confident that Avi is pronounced as AY-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-vee, at 36.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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