Avery
Top 1000
About Avery
Avery is a unisex name that is used four times as often today for girls as for boys. But while Avery's popularity is starting to soften for girls, it continues to get stronger for boys -- in keeping with our finding that gender neutral names are becoming more favored for boys than for girls.
Pronounced AY-ver-ee.
As of October 2026, Avery ranked #291 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #181 in 2017, Nameberry popularity #238.
Editor's take: The name Avery is a boy's name of English origin meaning "ruler of the elves".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #186 | 2,283 | 1,188.5 |
| 2015 | #188 | 2,218 | 1,157.2 |
| 2016 | #189 | 2,124 | 1,119.2 |
| 2017 | #181 | 2,198 | 1,187.5 |
| 2018 | #190 | 2,116 | 1,165.1 |
| 2019 | #204 | 1,933 | 1,077.4 |
| 2020 | #211 | 1,794 | 1,039.4 |
| 2021 | #210 | 1,806 | 1,032.3 |
| 2022 | #221 | 1,663 | 952.5 |
| 2023 | #241 | 1,461 | 854.1 |
| 2024 | #259 | 1,348 | 782.4 |
| 2025 | #291 | 1,156 | 676.8 |
World rankings
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Avery on lists
Famous Averys
- Avery Lawrence Schreiber
American comedian
- Avery DeWitt Johnson
American basketball coach
- Avery Franklin Brooks
American actor
- Avery Brundage
American former president of the International Olympic Committee
- Avery Antonio Bradley
American NBA basketball player
- Avery Robert Dulles
American cardinal
- Avery Storm (born Ralph Di Stasio)
American R&B singer
- (Branden) Avery Wilson
American singer and "The Voice" contestant
- Avery Robert Fisher
American audio specialist who inspired the name of Avery Fisher Hall
- Avery Jack Schelske (b. 1999)
son of singer Sara Evans and Craig Schelske
Avery in pop culture
- Avery Arable
Fern's brother in E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web"
- Avery Silas Barkley
character on TV's "Nashville"
- Avery Brown
Murphy's son on TV's "Murphy Brown"
- Avery Bullock
Stan's boss on TV's "American Dad"
- Avery Junior Johnson
character in video game Halo
- Avery Gifford
indolent New Englander in Marquand's "Wickford Point" (1939)
- Avery Carrington
character in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Avery Connor
character in graphic novel Wolverine & Elektra: The Redeemer
- Avery
Slytherin boy in the "Harry Potter" series
- Avery
character in the game "Hustle Cat"
- Jackson Avery
surgeon on TV's "Grey's Anatomy"