Avagrace
Feminine · “Contested”
Avagrace is Ava Grace with the space closed, and it is a very modern instance of a very old American habit. What is new is which names are being joined: Ava was the most popular girls' name in America in the years around this name's peak.
How old is the name Avagrace?
Avagrace first appears in US birth records in 2003 — 22 years ago. The typical Avagrace is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Avagrace are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avagrace most popular?
Avagrace peaked in 2015, reaching #3389 nationally. Today it ranks #5554, 2,165 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ava to Avagrace
Our story of Avagrace
The American double name never actually died; it changed materials. The 1920s joined Emma to Jean and Anna to Mae. The 1940s joined Mary to Ellen and Betty to Lou. And the 2010s join Ava to Grace, Ella to Rose, Emma to Kate and Lily to Ann. What is constant is the shape — a two-syllable first name and a one-syllable second — and what changes is which names are currently at the top of the list, because the first element is always drawn from there. Ava was the American number one for girls in 2010 and near it for a decade. Avagrace's 2015 peak is simply the current fashion running through a hundred-year-old template, and the space closes on the form the way it always has.
Meaningscholars disagree
Contested, joined to grace
Ava's origin is genuinely unsettled: a Germanic element av of unknown meaning, a short form of Germanic names beginning Av-, a form of Eve from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, and Latin avis, a bird, have all been proposed. Grace is from Latin gratia, favor or thanks, which is settled. The compound has no meaning beyond the two names joined.
How the name formed
- Ava
- Ava Grace
- Avagrace
Related forms: Ava Grace
Pronouncing Avagrace
AY-vuh-GRAYSS
Three syllables, with the main stress on the first and a strong secondary on the last. It is said exactly as the two names in sequence.
Nicknames for Avagrace
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2003
- Most girls named
- 201547 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3389reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- +29.4%22 in 2025, from 17
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Avagrace in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ava Grace in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, California.
Avagraces among us
people named Avagrace are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was named Avagrace
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Janica test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avagrace's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janica climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janica's path sketches the road Avagrace is walking now.
Avagrace sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Avagrace beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avagrace in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are complete names and both are currently very popular.
- Gracie works as a warm short form.
- Everyone can say it after one hearing.
- Written solid it looks like an error to anyone expecting Ava Grace.
- Ava's own meaning is genuinely unsettled.
- It is tightly dated to the 2010s, when both halves were at their height.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avagraces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Avagrace are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Avagrace in 2025?
- Avagrace ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avagrace?
- About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Avagrace — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avagrace with classmates?
- Avagrace will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Avagrace
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