Ava

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ava is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Origin uncertain; possibly from medieval Germanic names or Latin avis 'bird'.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 6.2K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 34K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ava itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

257,513 people, 2020

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
486 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AvaLatin(measured from records)
อาภาThai(measured from records)
아바Hangul(measured from records)
ΆβαGreek(measured from records)
ԱվաArmenian(measured from records)
ავაGeorgian(measured from records)

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Abha in FR France and อาภา in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Origin uncertain; possibly from medieval Germanic names or Latin avis 'bird'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ava 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.

Where Ava is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—257,5131 in 1.3K257KAva486
FR France—≈6,800 est.≈1 in 10K10KAbha23
AU Australia#710≈4,100 est.≈1 in 6.2K811Ava165
TH Thailand—≈3,900 est.≈1 in 18K#797,686อาภา79
PH Philippines—≈3,300 est.≈1 in 34K—Ava73
SE Sweden—2,0091 in 5.1K2KAva44
FI Finland—1,6641 in 3.3K1.8KAva10
IE Ireland#461≈540 est.≈1 in 9.7K313Ava63
SI Slovenia—4631 in 4.5K500—5
XK Kosovo—≈390 est.≈1 in 5K271—1

257,513 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ava is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Argentina

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written A-Va, Avá, Ãva, Avã, Åva

  • German given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: German, Turkish, English

    Also written Aeva, A-Va, Ãva, Ävä, Ävà

  • Russian given name45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Ава, А-Ва, A-Va, Àvå, Эива

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Syria, United Arab Emirates

    Also written A-Va

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written A-Va, Àva, Åvå

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ava 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 French, Hebrew origin, from Chava/Eve, meaning “living” or “life”.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Breton feminine form of Abel; linked to Hebrew Hava/Eve.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Nom ancien, peut-être de racine germanique ou hébraïque; fête selon le calendrier local.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, weibl. Vom. germanischer Herkunft, dessen Ausgangsform nicht sicher zu ermit­ teln ist (vielleicht altsächs. aval »Kraft«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Kurdish, Water, prosperous

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

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)

18501900195020002050Ava Willing Astor, b. 1868Ava Helen Pauling, b. 1903Ava Gardner, b. 1922Ava DuVernay, b. 1972Ava Vincent, b. 1975Ava Addams, b. 1979Ava Max, b. 1994Ava Michelle, b. 2002Ava Acres, b. 2004Ava Kolker, b. 2006

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 127 sources across 68 countries.

Official registers attesting Ava
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010219#85,357
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020180#105,671

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

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

Is Ava a male or female name?
Ava is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ava mean, and where does it come from?
Origin uncertain; possibly from medieval Germanic names or Latin avis 'bird'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
In which country does Ava have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 258 thousand people named Ava, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ava.
Where is Ava most common?
Ava is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
What are other forms of the name Ava?
In the etymology graph, Evelyn, Eva and Eileen are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Ava?
In the United States, the national register counted 257,513 people named Ava in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Ava compared with other names?
In Ireland, Ava is the 461st most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ava” — the 461st most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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