Avis
Avis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 238th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920438 births
- Best rank
- #238in 1912
- Since 1880
- 18,036people given the name
The story in the numbers
17,218 girls have been named Avis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 438 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 438 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 87 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 818 boys have also been given it, 4.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Avis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 177 | |
| 1890s | 392 | |
| 1900s | 661 | |
| 1910s | 3,091 | |
| 1920s | 3,942 | |
| 1930s | 2,453 | |
| 1940s | 1,487 | |
| 1950s | 2,198 | |
| 1960s | 1,504 | |
| 1970s | 593 | |
| 1980s | 347 | |
| 1990s | 146 | |
| 2000s | 88 | |
| 2010s | 79 | |
| 2020s | 60 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Avis was the 312th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Avis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dorotheapeak 1920
- Margarettepeak 1921
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Genevapeak 1924
- Allenepeak 1926
- Helenepeak 1918
- Francespeak 1918
- Enidpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.