Avin
Masculine
Avin is given to both — 1,045 boys and 76 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Avin is a short modern name with a Kurdish neighbor of real weight — evîn is the Kurdish word for love.
How old is the name Avin?
Avin first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Avin alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,000 people named Avin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avin most popular?
Avin peaked in 2007, reaching #2304 nationally. Today it ranks #3949, 1,645 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Avin
Ours, offered as ours. Kurdish evîn is love in the full romantic sense, and it is a name in Kurdish communities across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria — one of a set of ordinary-word names that Kurdish naming favors, alongside Berfin the snowdrop and Rojda born of the sun. Whether an American Avin has any connection to it is unrecorded. The Kurdish word is real and used, and it is the best thing standing near this spelling.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for this spelling. Kurdish evîn means love and is used as a personal name. Sanskrit avin has been proposed without support. The Av- opening of modern American naming, shared with Avery and Avan, is the other likely source.
Pronouncing Avin
AY-vin
Two syllables, first stressed. Some families say ah-VEEN.
Nicknames for Avin
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
- 1959
- Most boys named
- 200756 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2304reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- −30.8%27 in 2025, from 39
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.
Avin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Evîn in Kurdish — related form
- Avan in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Avins among us
people named Avin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 63,262 born in 2025 was named Avin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Avin
- #3949
- Avin on the 2025 chart
- #890
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Avin went to 27 boys in 2025, but Avyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 38, which makes it the 890th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,059 places above the chart.
- Avin27
- Avyn11
About 1 boy in 44,949 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 63,262 for Avin 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 Javis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Javis climbed just as high around 1988, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Javis's path sketches the road Avin is walking now.
Avin 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 Avin is headed
Avin 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.
Avin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Vin and Avi are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- The first vowel is unsettled between AY and AH.
- Avin, Avan, Evan and Aven are all in use and get confused.
- There is no documented meaning for this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Avin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Avin?
- Avin is the most-used spelling in US records — 27 of the 38 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Avyn.
- How popular is the name Avin in 2025?
- Avin ranks #3949 among US boy names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avin?
- About 1 in every 63,262 US boys born in 2025 was named Avin — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avin with classmates?
- Avin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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