girls:
304 births since 1986
#5412 (5th percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1976
#2505 (45th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1976
#5065 (35th percentile)
The name Avion is the #5,065 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,848 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 34.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,505 (45.4% percentile) for all time with 2,544 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,412 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 304 births since 1986.
Avion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Avion is available in 40 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (39 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 Avion has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Avion were boys.
For boys, Avion reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 13.8% percentile (ranked #787) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 70 births per million (ranked 13.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Avion ranks #836 for boys (8.2% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 62.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Avion reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #854) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Avion".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Avion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.0% confident that Avion is pronounced as A-vee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-vee-AHN, at 18.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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