Avi

What Avi means

Means “father”

From Hebrew אבי (Ávi, “father”), chiefly as a diminutive of אַבְרָהָם (Avrahám, “Abraham, lit. father of a multitude or exalted father”) and אַבְנֵר (Avnér, “Abner, lit. father of light”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Avi” (revision 94534602), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Avi?

US: Rising: up from #939 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #677 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 366 boys got the name (#720 that year). First in the US records in 1949.

How common

• About 1 in 5,751 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,184 baby boys in England and Wales 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 NJ (0.63 per 1,000 boys), WA (0.55 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.38 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Avi is #832 in the US and #593 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 94.9% of US babies named Avi were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ivo11 US · 57 E&W
• Ovi8 US · 8 E&W
• Ivy7 US
• Ava7 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 Avi

Boys

• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Yosef#663Editor’s note Up from #708 in 2015 to #663 in 2025 in the US
• Moshe#435possibly “to give birth to”^*

For a sister

• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Chaya#587“living”^*
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US

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