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Avy

Gender
Girl
Say it
AY-vee
US rank, 2025
#7,883 for girls

Avy is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

Where does Avy come from?

Spelling of Avie; perhaps a pet form of Ava or Avery

Meaning borrowed from Avie. More on Wiktionary.

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

Avy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Avy in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2022, with 6 girls.

2009Busiest: 6 in 20222022
Avy in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20226#3,728
20210–
20204#4,744
20190–
20184#4,914
20170–
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20144#4,888
20131#7,690
20124#5,058
20110–
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20094#4,795

How popular is Avy in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,883among girls
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 120,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 14% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Avy, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1913.

2025 had fewer girls named Avy than any year since 2009.

Half of all the girls named Avy in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 68 girls in the US were given Avy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,186, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.

1913Busiest: 27 in 20172025
Avy in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
202420#5,959
202324#5,245
202217#6,702
202123#5,394
202017#6,625
201916#7,021
201817#6,788
201727#4,920
201614#7,985
201517#6,974
201418#6,711
201319#6,459
201221#6,107
201120#6,332
201015#7,877
20099#11,454
200820#6,556
200717#7,390
200620#6,354
200516#7,133
200414#7,823
200317#6,571
200214#7,438
200112#8,189
200011#8,527
19998#10,338
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Names like Avy

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Avy

Names related to Avy

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Avy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/avy, updated 20 October 2026.