Avah Girl
How popular is Avah?
#1,436 girl name in 2025
150 baby girls were named Avah in the US in 2025, making it the 1436th most popular girl name.
Avah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,436 for girls (▼ 240 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 150 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-66% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #656 in 2015, #657 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (679 girls) |
| Highest rank | #463 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1923 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Avah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Ava family of names ranked #20 for girls in 2025 (#14 the year before), with 7,887 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ava | 7,732 | 98% |
| Avah | 150 | 2% |
| Aava | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Avah is most popular
Babies named Avah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.5 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (30 girls)
- Georgia: 0.3 per 1,000 (68 girls)
- Alabama: 0.3 per 1,000 (27 girls)
- Ohio: 0.3 per 1,000 (67 girls)
Avah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 7 | #3,970 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,409 |
| 1990s | 18 | #7,233 |
| 2000s | 1,194 | #924 |
| 2010s | 4,176 | #463 |
| 2020s | 1,646 | #657 |
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Questions
- Is Avah a boy or girl name?
- Avah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Avah were girls.
- How popular is the name Avah?
- 150 baby girls were named Avah in the US in 2025, making it the 1436th most popular girl name.
- When was Avah most popular?
- Avah peaked in 2018, when 679 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #463 in 2018.
- How many people are named Avah?
- 7,046 babies have been named Avah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 6,997 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Avah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Avah was most common in Mississippi, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.