Of Hebrew origin, the name Avi means ‘my father’. It is often used as a syllable of a longer name such as Aviram meaning ‘my father is exalted’ or Avraham meaning ‘father of many’.
Avi is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
The name Avi isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Avi ranks 851. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Avi. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Avi.
Of Hebrew origin, the name Avi means ‘my father’. It is often used as a syllable of a longer name such as Aviram meaning ‘my father is exalted’ or Avraham meaning ‘father of many’.
Sometimes, Avi is used as... a nickname for Abigail, which derived from the Hebrew name Avigayil for 'my father's joy'.
Avi is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Avi cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #607 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Avi, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Avi seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Avi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
You may not know anyone named Avi, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to men and boys named Avi. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Avi living in one state or another. If your name is Avi and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New York, which has the most people named Avi relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,779 men and boys their names before you hear Avi as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Avi is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Avi and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Avi, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Avi
Avi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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V
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Avi sounds like this:
