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Avery

Girls' name · Current

Living in the US
~230,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#37 among girls
Births in 2025
6,423 236,886 since 1880
Typical age
12 years, median

Avery popularity over time

Avery rank by birth year, 1890–2025Avery ranked #1,210 in 1890 and #37 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #12, in 2013.#100#1,000#37best #12 in 201318901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1890–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2014: 11,861 births recorded as Avery. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. It has held a top-100 place in 23 separate years.

The 2025 position is #37, on 6,423 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 45%.

Babies named Avery per yearPeaks at 11,861 births in 2014.11,861 in 2014018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Avery?

An estimated 230,100 living Americans are called Avery. That is out of 236,886 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 168,300 women and 61,800 men.

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 Avery?

Median age among living Averys: 12. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Avery a current name.

Your Avery

Ages of living people named AveryHalf of living Averys 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 Avery is most common

The name is concentrated in Rhode Island, at 2.2× the national rate. Vermont, Maine and Wyoming follow.

Where Avery is used more than average5 states use the name Avery more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: 2.1× the national rateMEVermont: 2.2× 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: 2.0× the national rateWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.2× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: 1.9× the national rateWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 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: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: 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 Avery is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Rhode Island 331 2.2×
Vermont 130 2.2×
Maine 393 2.1×
Wyoming 112 2.0×
West Virginia 603 1.9×

Is Avery a boy's or a girl's name?

72% girls28% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

The name leans girls, but 20.3% of births in the last decade were boys. Across the whole record, 71.8% of births under the name were girls. The name has changed sides: it began mostly on one sex and ends mostly on the other.

Avery in England and Wales

ONS recorded 284 births named Avery in 2025, ranking it #261. That is 31% higher 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 Avery comes from

From Anglo-Norman Averay, Auveray, Alverey, from Latin Alveredus, Aluredus, from Old English Ælfræd, from ælf (“elf”) and ræd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfred.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Avery

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Avery Brundage president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972 1887–1975 40
Avery Brooks American actor and director 1948 29
Avery Bradley American basketball player 1990 26
Avery Dulles Catholic cardinal 1918–2008 25
Avery Johnson American basketball player and coach 1965 19
Avery John Trinidad and Tobago footballer 1975 19
Avery Corman American writer 1935 12
Avery Hopwood American playwright 1882–1928 10
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 902 in 1992 to 1,386 in 1993 — 1.5 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.

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