How Many People Are Named Avi?

6,784

people named Avi are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 50,381 people in the US has this name

Based on 6,921 babies named Avi in Social Security records from 1949 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,085

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,194

See the top 100

Peak Year

2022

425 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Hebrew
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Means "my father" in Hebrew. It is also a diminutive of AVRAHAM or AVIRAM.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
12.2%
Male
87.8%

Of the babies given the name Avi, 12.2% were girls and 87.8% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1970s: 1.8% of the babies were girls then and 11.3% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Avi alive today is about 15 years old, and 87% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 20 in 2025.

Under 30 5,872
86.6%
30 to 59 848
12.5%
60 and over 63
0.9%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Avi first appears in the records in 1949 and was given most often in 2022, to 425 babies. In 2025, 313 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1949 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Avi has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #720, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #832. Among girls, its best rank was #2,865, in 2022.

BoysGirls
Rank in 2025#832#6,879
Best rank#720 (2022)#2,865 (2022)
Years in the top 100NoneNone
Rank in its biggest decade#1,038 in the 2010s#4,044 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Avi alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Avi were born in New York than in any other state: about 1,076 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Avi was given 4 times as often in New York, 3.8 times in New Jersey and 1.9 times in Massachusetts.

New York 1,076
California 819
New Jersey 449
Texas 322
Illinois 255
Florida 250
Pennsylvania 186
Massachusetts 163
Ohio 133
Maryland 116
Washington 113
Georgia 103
Virginia 80
Michigan 66
Colorado 62
North Carolina 61
Arizona 28
Oregon 25
Minnesota 25
Wisconsin 20
Indiana 18
District of Columbia 17
Utah 10
Connecticut 10
Kentucky 7
Missouri 5
South Carolina 5
Alabama 5

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