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Avalynn vs Avangeline

American parents have registered 4,416 Avalynns since 1880, against 512 Avangelines. Avalynn is still ahead, with 198 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avalynn against Avangeline, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avalynn Avangeline

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Avalynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2002 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Avalynn had 55 and Avangeline had 24.

Side by side

  Avalynn Avangeline
Total US births 4,416512
Most in one year 36234
Babies in 2025 19826
Estimated living today 4,400510
Median age today 79
Peak year 20202017
Best rank 752nd girls4,220th girls
Rank in 2025 1,170th4,987th
First recorded 20022006
Girls / boys 4,416 / 0512 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Avangelines alive today are over 9; half the Avalynns are over 7. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Avalynn Avangeline
England and Wales 1714

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Avalynn and Avangeline.