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Ava

Girls' name · Millennial-era

Living in the US
~335,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#11 among girls
Births in 2025
7,739 344,441 since 1880
Typical age
12 years, median

Ava popularity over time

Ava rank by birth year, 1880–2025Ava ranked #466 in 1880 and #11 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #3, in 2016.#10#100#1,000#11best #3 in 201618901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Ava in 2007 than in any other year — 18,065 of them. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Across the record, 24 years put Ava in the top 100.

The 2025 position is #11, on 7,739 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 53%.

Babies named Ava per yearPeaks at 18,065 births in 2007.18,065 in 2007018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Ava?

An estimated 335,400 living Americans are called Ava. That is out of 344,441 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Ava?

The typical living Ava is 12 years old. The 2010s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Ava a millennial-era name.

Your Ava

Ages of living people named AvaHalf of living Avas are older than 12 and half younger.median 12020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Ava is most common

Ava is 2.1× as common in Mississippi as it is nationally. Delaware, District of Columbia and Rhode Island follow.

Where Ava is used more than average5 states use the name Ava more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: 1.8× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 1.8× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: 2.0× the national rateDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 1.8× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: 2.1× the national rateMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Ava is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Mississippi 1,680 2.1×
Delaware 411 2.0×
District of Columbia 421 1.8×
Rhode Island 395 1.8×
Vermont 156 1.8×

Ava in England and Wales

ONS recorded 1,611 births named Ava in 2025, ranking it #11. That is 40% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Ava comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from Germanic languages, Hebrew, Irish.

Notable people named Ava

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Ava Gardner American actress 1922–1990 88
Ava Max American singer and songwriter 1994 62
Ava DuVernay American film director 1972 37
Ava Michelle American actress 2002 15
Ava Acres American actress 2004 14
Ava Kolker American actress 2006 11
Ava Leigh British singer 1985 10
Ava Alice Muriel Astor heiress and socialite 1902–1956 10
Photo credits (4)

The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 362 in 1997 to 831 in 1998 — 2.3 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Ava

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Ava was in 2025.

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