Aven
Feminine
Aven is given to both — 1,655 girls and 2,849 boys since 1880. See Aven as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Aven is a short modern name with a real English word standing next to it: avens is a small yellow wildflower of hedgerows and old meadows. Whether the name came from the flower is not recorded.
How old is the name Aven?
Aven first appears in US birth records in 1949 — 76 years ago. The typical Aven is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,600 people named Aven are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aven most popular?
Aven peaked in 2012, reaching #1552 nationally. Today it ranks #3249, 1,697 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Aven
Ours rather than the record's. Aven is a good example of a name whose whole appeal is its shape: two syllables, an open first vowel, and an ending that reads as neither masculine nor feminine in English. The Av- opening had a very large decade in American naming, and Aven takes it somewhere Ava and Avery had not gone. The wildflower it shares a name with is genuinely old and genuinely English, and the connection is a pleasant accident rather than a descent.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. Two genuine neighbors: the English plant name avens, a wildflower of the rose family, in use since the fourteenth century; and the very productive Av- opening of Ava, Avery and Aveline in modern American naming.
Pronouncing Aven
AY-ven
Two syllables, first stressed. Some families say AH-ven, following Ava.
Nicknames for Aven
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
- 1949
- Most girls named
- 2012141 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1552reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- −15.8%48 in 2025, from 57
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.
Aven in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Colorado, California.
Avens among us
people named Aven are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 33,485 born in 2025 was named Aven
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 Montez test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aven's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Montez climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Montez's path sketches the road Aven is walking now.
Aven 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
Where Aven is headed
Aven should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Aven beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aven in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- Read correctly on sight by any English speaker.
- It sits beside Ava and Avery without being either of them.
- Avon, Aven and Avin are close enough to be written for one another, and the first is a river and a cosmetics company.
- The first vowel is unsettled between AY and AH.
- There is no documented meaning, only a resemblance to a wildflower.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Aven are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Aven in 2025?
- Aven ranks #3249 among US girl names in 2025, with 48 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aven?
- About 1 in every 33,485 US girls born in 2025 was named Aven — 48 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aven with classmates?
- Aven will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Aven
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