Ava-May

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ava-May: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ava-May: Recorded every year since 2007, it reached #735 in 2020, and it stood at #1,036 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
18times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#735highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#3218
2008	#2292
2009	#1909
2010	#1294
2011	#1438
2012	#1075
2013	#1177
2014	#1070
2015	#1324
2016	#1013
2017	#836
2018	#990
2019	#778
2020	#735
2021	#1195
2022	#1006
2023	#1371
2024	#1036

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2007 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2007–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2007
First recorded at #3218 among girls in England and Wales in 2007 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2007–2024
Highest recorded position: #735 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020 (recorded 2007–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1036 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ava-May by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ava-May in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	29	3 of 10	10
2010s	329	10 of 10	33
2020sbusiest	168	5 of 10	34

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 34 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ava-May appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2007 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #735 in England and Wales in 2020.

Ava-May's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1036	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1371	23	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1006	34	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1195	28	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#735	50	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#778	48	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#990	36	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#836	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1070	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1177	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1075	32	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1294	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2007 and 2024, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #735, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
18 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,036position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
50births registered in its largest year, 202050 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Addie · #736, 11y
Areesha · #734, 24y
Fausta · #734, 14y
Hailee · #734, 10y

Ava-May was ranked #735 in England and Wales · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ava-May and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ava-May without appearing here.

Ava-May moved ahead of

Jesse Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1909 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1294 and #4688.
Therese Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3218 and #2895 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #5545.
Jordan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1909 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1294 and #4012.
Evan Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3218 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2292 and #3860.

Moved ahead of Ava-May

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #778 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #735 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1070 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1324 and #1240.
Meabh Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1006 and #1142 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1371 and #1288.

Moved the opposite way to Ava-May

Abigail Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ava-May went from #3218 to #1036 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ava-May went from #3218 to #1036 while Aimee went from #76 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ava-May went from #3218 to #1036 while Aisling went from #1196 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ava-May went from #3218 to #1036 while Alex went from #350 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ava-May

Ada Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ava-May went from #3218 to #1036 and Ada from #919 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ava-May went from #3218 to #1036 and Alma from #1196 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ava-May went from #3218 to #1036 and Amelia from #10 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ava-May went from #3218 to #1036 and Aria from #1234 to #35.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2007 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #735 in England and Wales in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ava-May

Ava-May at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ava-May by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ava-May at a glance

Ava-May by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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