Avery

What Avery means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Avery yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Avery?

US: Falling: down from #16 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #722 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 9,578 girls got the name (#14 that year). First in the US records in 1890.

How common

• About 1 in 305 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,423 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,278 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (8.63 per 1,000 girls), WV (7.88 per 1,000 girls), AK (7.26 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Avery is #37 in the US and #261 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 82.0% of US babies named Avery were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ivory810 US · 11 E&W
• Averi190 US
• Avira54 US · 10 E&W
• Avary20 US
• Avory19 US
• Aveera11 US · 7 E&W
• Avari17 US
• Averee17 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Avery

Girls

• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025
• Teagan#340Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1979, with 6 babies
• Kinley#691Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #235 in 2015, #691 in 2025
• Brinley#608Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #608 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Karsyn#718Editor’s note Used for both: 70% of US babies named Karsyn in 2025 were girls
• Kinslee#955Variant of Kinsley, meaning “Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland…^*

For a brother

• Camden#205“enclosure + valley”^*
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Kamden#717Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1986, with 6 babies
• Bryson#152Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #152 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Cason#846“house”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Avery’s. Rank is US 2025.