girls:
700 births since 1914
#5016 (12th percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1893
#3071 (33rd percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1893
#5499 (29th percentile)
The name Avon is the #5,499 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,305 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 28.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,071 (33.0% percentile) for all time with 1,605 births since 1893. For girls, it ranks #5,016 (12.2% percentile) for all time with 700 births since 1914.
Avon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for boys and 1914 for girls). Birth data for Avon is available in 112 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (112 years for boys and 60 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 Avon has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.6% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Avon were boys.
For boys, Avon reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #523) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 50 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Avon ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 19.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Avon reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #572) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 18 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Avon".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Avon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.8% confident that Avon is pronounced as AY-vahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-vahn, at 22.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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