Across the world, أفين (Aven 
, Awen 
, أفين 
) is quite a common unisex first name. The first name أفين is habitual in Iraq, where it is quite a common dominantly female, but seldom boy's name, Syria, where it is quite a rare girly name, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare male name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in Iraq, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Much less frequently, أفين is the last name as well as the forename.