Avia
Feminine · “my father is the Lord”
Avia is Hebrew for my father is the Lord — a complete statement, and the name of a queen mother in the book of Kings.
How old is the name Avia?
Avia first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Avia is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,900 people named Avia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avia most popular?
Avia peaked in 2016, reaching #1828 nationally. Today it ranks #1942, 114 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
From avi Yah to Avia
The story of Avia
Aviyah is carried in the Hebrew Bible by a king of Judah, a son of Samuel, and the mother of Hezekiah. It is one of the names used for both sexes in the text. Modern Israeli naming keeps Aviya as feminine, and it appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
my father is the Lord
From the Hebrew Aviyah — avi, 'my father', and Yah, the divine name. It is a complete statement and is used for both sexes in the Bible; Abijah is the commoner English form. The Latin avia, 'grandmother', is an unrelated coincidence.
How the name formed
- avi Yah
- Aviyah
- Avia
Related forms: אביה · Abijah · Aviya
Pronouncing Avia
ah-VEE-ah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Hebrew places the stress on the final syllable.
Nicknames for Avia
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
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 2015104 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1828reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- +43.5%99 in 2025, from 69
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.
Avia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- אביה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Abijah in English — related form
- Aviya in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Avias among us
people named Avia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 16,235 born in 2025 was named Avia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Avia
- #1942
- Avia on the 2025 chart
- #654
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Avia went to 99 girls in 2025, but Aavya, Avya and Aviyah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 321, which makes it the 654th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,288 places above the chart.
- Aavya129
- Avia99
- Avya30
- Aviyah26
- Aviah19
- Aviya18
About 1 girl in 5,007 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 16,235 for Avia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sharice test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sharice climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sharice's path sketches the road Avia is walking now.
Avia 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 Avia is headed
Avia 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.
Avia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a complete statement and is undisputed.
- It is used for both sexes in the biblical text, which is genuinely unusual.
- Avi and Via are two short forms, both with real use.
- The Latin avia means 'grandmother', which is a coincidence some will notice.
- Abijah is the commoner English biblical form.
- Olivia and Avia are close enough in the clipping to cause confusion.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Avia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Avia?
- Avia is one of 6 recorded spellings. Aavya is the more common one — 129 births in 2025 against 99 for Avia.
- How popular is the name Avia in 2025?
- Avia ranks #1942 among US girl names in 2025, with 99 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avia?
- About 1 in every 16,235 US girls born in 2025 was named Avia — 99 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avia with classmates?
- Avia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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