Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Avery was most popular in 2014, when 11,861 American babies were given the name — ranking #29 that year. In 2025 it ranked #62, with 6,423 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 236,886 people named Avery.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Avery is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 146 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 236,886 American births named Avery between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 229,866 are estimated to be alive today.
6,423 American babies were named Avery in 2025, ranking #62 that year.
Avery is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 7,462 births a year, against 10,830 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -31% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Avery is a unisex name — 71.8% of the 236,886 Americans given it were girls and 28.2% were boys. It changed hands: since 1998 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 80% girls and 20% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 229,866 Americans named Avery are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 13 years old, and half are between 8 and 20. That is a narrow band because Avery is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org