Avelina vs Avelino
American parents have registered 1,804 Avelinas since 1880, against 1,057 Avelinos. Avelina is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Avelina Avelino
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 112 years in which either name was published, Avelina for 74 years and Avelino for 38 years. The lead changed hands 36 times.
- 1914–1942 Avelina ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1948–1953 Avelino ahead
- 1957–1959 Avelina ahead
- 1960–1980 Avelino ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1981–1983 Avelina ahead
- 1984–1992 Avelino ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1993–2025 Avelina ahead, apart from one short spell
23 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Avelina | Avelino | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,804 | 1,057 |
| Most in one year | 73 | 19 |
| Babies in 2025 | 73 | 8 |
| Estimated living today | 1,500 | 750 |
| Median age today | 16 | 37 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1999 |
| Best rank | 2,438th girls | 3,834th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,438th | 8,910th |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1915 |
| Girls / boys | 1,804 / 0 | 0 / 1,057 |
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 Avelinos alive today are over 37; half the Avelinas are over 16. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Avelina California (5.9×), Texas (4.2×)
- Avelino Texas (6.5×), California (4.3×)
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 | Avelina | Avelino |
|---|---|---|
| France | 70 | 215 |
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.
Compare something else
Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Avelina and Avelino.