Avri
Feminine
Avri is given to both — 570 girls and 36 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Avery and Aubrey are cousins, and both are about elves. Avery descends from Alfred — ælf plus rǣd, elf-counsel — or from the same Alberich that gave Aubrey, so a family choosing Avri is at two removes from a name that meant advice given by elves.
How old is the name Avri?
Avri first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Avri is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Avri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avri most popular?
Avri peaked in 2015, reaching #3059 nationally. Today it ranks #7491, 4,432 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ælfrǣd to Avri
The story of Avri
Elves in early Germanic belief were powerful and morally ambiguous, capable of illness and of gifts, and it was worth having them on your side. That is why the element ælf appears in serious names: Ælfrǣd, elf-counsel, borne by the king of Wessex; Ælfwine, elf-friend; Ælfgifu, elf-gift; and on the Continent Alberich, elf-ruler. English lost the word's seriousness by the sixteenth century, when elves became small and decorative, but the names survived with their meanings intact and unnoticed. Avery came back into American use as a surname name and went unisex in the 1990s; the short form Avri peaks in 2015.
Meaningscholars disagree
Germanic "elf-counsel" or "elf-ruler"
Avery is generally traced either to Old English Ælfrǣd, elf-counsel, which also gives Alfred, or to Norman French Alfred and Alberich, elf-ruler, which gives Aubrey. The two lines are hard to separate and both are Germanic. Avri is a modern clipped respelling of Avery; the -i ending is an American shortening device and adds nothing. Avri is separately a Hebrew name, from Avraham.
How the name formed
- Ælfrǣd
- Avery
- Avri
Related forms: Avery · Avrie
Pronouncing Avri
AV-ree
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some families say AY-vree, following Avery's long first vowel; both are in use and the spelling does not decide.
Nicknames for Avri
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
- 1997
- Most girls named
- 201555 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3059reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- +27.3%14 in 2025, from 11
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.
Avri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avery in English — related form
- Avrie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Avris among us
people named Avri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 114,805 born in 2025 was named Avri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Avri
- #7491
- Avri on the 2025 chart
- #935
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Avri went to 14 girls in 2025, but Avry is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 935th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,556 places above the chart.
- Avri14
- Avry11
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 114,805 for Avri 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 Mychelle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mychelle climbed just as high around 1961, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mychelle's path sketches the road Avri is walking now.
Avri 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
Avri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, two syllables and easy for a child to write.
- It descends from a name element with a settled and vivid meaning.
- It reads as current without being difficult to say.
- The first vowel is pronounced two different ways.
- Avery is far more common and will be substituted.
- It is often taken for a misspelling of Avery or April.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Avri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Avri?
- Avri is the most-used spelling in US records — 14 of the 25 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Avry.
- How popular is the name Avri in 2025?
- Avri ranks #7491 among US girl names in 2025, with 14 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avri?
- About 1 in every 114,805 US girls born in 2025 was named Avri — 14 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avri with classmates?
- Avri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Avri
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