Avi

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Avi is ranked 842nd among boys in 2024 (288 births). Its best rank was 718th, in 2022.

Rank in 2024: #842down 95 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2880.02% of boys
Peak year: 2022366 births
Best rank: #718in 2022
Since 1949: 6,604people given the name

Babies named Avi, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,788 boys have been named Avi in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 366 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 33%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 816 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Avi
1940s	5
1950s	49
1960s	80
1970s	270
1980s	354
1990s	424
2000s	1,120
2010s	1,926
2020s	1,560

In 2022, its biggest year

Avi was the 718th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Avi

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.