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Avari

Mostly girls · AY-vuh-ree · English

Avari is a name of English origin, meaning “elf counsel or elf ruler”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).

What does Avari mean?

English: spelling of Avary, itself a spelling variant of Avery, an English surname from Alfred or Alberich

“elf counsel or elf ruler”

Respelling of Avery, a surname that came from Norman French forms of Alfred and Alberich.

Say it
AY-vuh-ree

Meaning borrowed from Avary.

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

In recent years, Avari has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls and 15 boys in the US.

How popular is Avari in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,545among girls
Babies in 2025
17about 1 in 95,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 14% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Avari, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 76 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000. 15 boys were also named Avari in 2025 (5,859th for boys).

2025 had fewer girls named Avari than any year since 2002.

Half of all the girls named Avari in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 70 girls in the US were given Avari or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,152, up from #6,545 for this spelling alone.

Girls were 87% of the babies named Avari in the US in 2003, and 53% in 2025.

2000Busiest: 76 in 20062025
Avari in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202517#6,545
202425#5,145
202325#5,123
202225#5,169
202128#4,715
202026#4,878
201920#5,982
201832#4,356
201731#4,475
201630#4,631
201550#3,254
201442#3,650
201333#4,334
201238#3,987
201138#3,915
201037#4,022
200942#3,736
200862#2,855
200760#2,964
200676#2,438
200548#3,208
200446#3,261
200339#3,586
200211#8,831
20015#15,345
20005#15,024

Names like Avari

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