Averie
Feminine · “From a medieval surname”
Averie is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 13,448 girls against 269 boys since 1880.
Averie is the -ie spelling of Avery, a name that came into England with the Normans as a surname and turned back into a first name centuries later. Three syllables that can slide into two, ending in the same soft -ie that Rosalie and Emilie carry. Familiar the moment it is spoken, less familiar the moment it is written.
How old is the name Averie?
Averie first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Averie is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 13,500 people named Averie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Averie most popular?
Averie peaked in 2014, reaching #380 nationally. Today it ranks #701, 321 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Alberich to Averie
The story of Averie
The Germanic name Alberich traveled into France with the Frankish nobility, was smoothed by Norman French speakers into forms like Alveredus and Avery, and crossed to England after 1066 as a surname. English surnames were still moving freely into first-name use in the American colonies, and Avery followed that path, given to boys and girls alike. Averie is a recent American respelling of that older name, swapping the final -y for the -ie that English has long used at the end of affectionate and feminine forms. The sound is old; this particular arrangement of letters is not.
Meaningscholars disagree
From a medieval surname, itself from a Germanic name meaning roughly "elf power"
Avery is a medieval English surname taken from Norman French pronunciations of Germanic personal names. The main candidate is Alberic — alb, "elf", plus ric, "power, ruler" — while some name scholars trace the same surname to Norman forms of Alfred, "elf counsel". Both roads begin with that same old element for "elf".
How the name formed
- Alberich
- Alberic
- Avery
- Averie
Related forms: Avery · Aubrey · Alberich · Aubry · Alberico
Pronouncing Averie
AY-vuh-ree
Identical to Avery. Many speakers compress it to two syllables, AYV-ree, in ordinary conversation; both are standard and no one will correct either.
Nicknames for Averie
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 2014858 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #380reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −9.0%404 in 2025, from 444
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.
Averie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avery in English — spelling variant
- Aubrey in English — related form
- Alberich in German — related form
- Aubry in French — related form
- Alberico in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Averies among us
people named Averie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 3,978 born in 2025 was named Averie
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 Ingrid test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Averie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ingrid climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ingrid's path sketches the road Averie is walking now.
Averie 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 Averie is headed
Averie is easing off slowly — about 17% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
High 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.
Averie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Averie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Everyone already knows how to say it — the sound is Avery, which needs no explanation anywhere in the English-speaking world.
- Sits on a documented line running back to Norman French and, before that, Germanic Alberich.
- Rare enough day to day that a child is unlikely to share it with a classmate, while never sounding unfamiliar.
- Has ready short forms in Ave and Avie for people who want one.
- Avery is the default spelling, so Averie will be corrected on forms, name tags and email addresses for life. Worth deciding now whether that trade is one you mind.
- The -ie ending places this version squarely in a recent wave, and its bearers are overwhelmingly children and young people. On an adult resume it reads as young for some years yet.
- The sound belongs to boys as well as girls through Avery, so anyone hearing the name before seeing it written will not know which to expect. The spelling does the signaling here, and only on paper.
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Frequently asked
- How many Averies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 13,500 people named Averie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Averie in 2025?
- Averie ranks #701 among US girl names in 2025, with 404 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Averie?
- About 1 in every 3,978 US girls born in 2025 was named Averie — 404 in all.
- Will my child share the name Averie with classmates?
- Averie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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