Aven
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑˈveɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aven is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 499K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 15K
- FIFinland1 in 164K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
666 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aven counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 666 | 1 in 499K | 1.9K | Aven | 195 |
| PH Philippines | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Aven | 24 |
| NO Norway | 354 | 1 in 15K | 354 | Aven | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 404K | — | Aven | 42 |
| CA Canada | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 373K | 2 | Aven | 38 |
| FI Finland | 34 | 1 in 164K | 34 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Aven | 11 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | 1 |
666 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aven is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Avennasar [FarabT, al-]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Muslim philosopher
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, pit cave, pit (natural cave with predominantly vertical shafts)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, river
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eero Avenb. 1941FIFinnish singer (1941–2020)
- Pyotr Avenb. 1955RURussian businessman, politician and economist
- Terje Avenb. 1956NONorwegian researcher
- Bruce Avenb. 1972USAmerican baseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Aven?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑˈveɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Aven mean, and where does it come from?
- A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Aven have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 666 people named Aven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aven.
- Where is Aven most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aven is densest in Norway — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aven?
- In the United States, the national register counted 666 people named Aven in 2010, about 1 in 499 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/avenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.