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Avalynn vs Avant

American parents have registered 4,416 Avalynns since 1880, against 642 Avants. Avalynn is still ahead, with 198 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avalynn Avant

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

Of the 27 years in which either name was published, Avalynn for 19 years and Avant for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Avalynn Avant
Total US births 4,416642
Most in one year 36258
Babies in 2025 1985
Estimated living today 4,400630
Median age today 717
Peak year 20202004
Best rank 752nd girls2,051st boys
Rank in 2025 1,170th12,008th
First recorded 20021971
Girls / boys 4,416 / 00 / 642

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 Avants alive today are over 17; half the Avalynns are over 7. That is 10 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.

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