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Avelina vs Averie

American parents have registered 13,717 Averies since 1880, against 1,804 Avelinas. Averie is still ahead, with 410 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avelina 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 107 years in which either name was published, Avelina for 70 years and Averie for 37 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Avelina Averie
Total US births 1,80413,717
Most in one year 73871
Babies in 2025 73410
Estimated living today 1,50014,000
Median age today 1610
Peak year 20252014
Best rank 2,438th girls380th girls
Rank in 2025 2,438th701st
First recorded 19141985
Girls / boys 1,804 / 013,448 / 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 Avelinas alive today are over 16; half the Averies are over 10. That is 6 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 Avelina Averie
England and Wales 18235

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: Avelina and Averie.