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Avelardo vs Averie

American parents have registered 13,717 Averies since 1880, against 344 Avelardos. Averie is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avelardo against Averie, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avelardo Averie

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 55 years in which either name was published, Averie for 40 years and Avelardo for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Avelardo Averie
Total US births 34413,717
Most in one year 17871
Babies in 2025 9410
Estimated living today 31014,000
Median age today 2110
Peak year 20132014
Best rank 5,171st boys380th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd701st
First recorded 19321985
Girls / boys 0 / 34413,448 / 269

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 Avelardos alive today are over 21; half the Averies are over 10. That is 11 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: Avelardo and Averie.