Aves
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrate animals constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5.5 cm (2.2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.8 m common ostrich.
Meaning & Origin of Aves
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrate animals constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5.5 cm (2.2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.8 m common ostrich.
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The Story of Aves
American parents first put Aves on the record books as a baby girl name in 1923, with 7 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1923, when 7 Avess were born — ranking #3,971 that year. Aves last appeared in the published SSA data in 1923, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 7 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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About the name Aves
Aves is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1923 and has accumulated 7 births in the dataset. Aves's peak popularity came in 1923 when it ranked #3,971. Use the chart and map above to compare Aves's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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