girls:
17.2k births since 1880
#1139 (80th percentile)
boys:
818 births since 1912
#3769 (18th percentile)
overall:
18k births since 1880
#1919 (75th percentile)
The name Avis is the #1,919 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,025 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,139 (80.1% percentile) for all time with 17,207 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,769 (17.8% percentile) for all time with 818 births since 1912.
Avis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1912 for boys). Birth data for Avis is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 91 years for boys). 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 Avis has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 72.2% of babies named Avis were girls.
For girls, Avis reached its peak popularity in 1912, achieving the 51.3% percentile (ranked #228) with 610 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 610 births per million (ranked 51.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Avis ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Avis reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #538) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 21 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Avis ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 13.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Avis".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Avis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.0% confident that Avis is pronounced as AY-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-vihs, at 18.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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