Avion
Masculine · “airplane”
Avion is given to both — 2,692 boys and 304 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Avion is an airplane in French — from the Latin avis, a bird — and the word was coined deliberately in 1875.
How old is the name Avion?
Avion first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Avion is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,700 people named Avion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avion most popular?
Avion peaked in 2018, reaching #1357 nationally. Today it ranks #2304, 947 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
From avis to Avion
Our story of Avion
Our story of Avion is a story of a word invented on purpose. Clément Ader built an early flying machine and coined avion for it from the Latin for a bird, and French adopted it. American naming meanwhile built a family on the -vion ending in the 1990s — Davion, Javion, Jayvion, Zavion. Avion appears in the registers among them. The French word has a documented inventor; the name's route into English does not.
Meaningscholars disagree
airplane; from a bird
The French avion, 'airplane', was coined by Clément Ader from the Latin avis, 'bird'. As an American given name it may draw on that or be a coinage on the -vion ending, alongside Davion and Javion. The French word is documented; the name's descent is not.
How the name formed
- avis
- avion
- Avion
Related forms: Avion · Avionne
Pronouncing Avion
AY-vee-un
Three syllables, stress on the first. French avion is a-VYON.
Nicknames for Avion
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
- 1976
- Most boys named
- 2022132 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1357reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- −30.2%60 in 2025, from 86
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.
Avion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avion in French — related form
- Avionne in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, North Carolina, Florida.
Avions among us
people named Avion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 28,468 born in 2025 was named Avion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Avion
- #2304
- Avion on the 2025 chart
- #862
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Avion went to 60 boys in 2025, but Avyon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 66, which makes it the 862nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,442 places above the chart.
- Avion60
- Avyon6
About 1 boy in 25,880 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 28,468 for Avion 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 Yonatan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Yonatan climbed just as high around 2001, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Yonatan's path sketches the road Avion is walking now.
Avion 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 Avion is headed
Avion is easing off slowly — about 17% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Avion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That the French word for an airplane was coined from 'bird' is a first-rate fact.
- Avi is available as a short form that is a real name elsewhere.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- In French it is the ordinary word for an airplane.
- French and English say it entirely differently.
- The name's descent is not documented.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Avion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Avion?
- Avion is the most-used spelling in US records — 60 of the 66 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Avyon.
- How popular is the name Avion in 2025?
- Avion ranks #2304 among US boy names in 2025, with 60 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avion?
- About 1 in every 28,468 US boys born in 2025 was named Avion — 60 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avion with classmates?
- Avion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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