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Avelina vs Averly

American parents have registered 1,804 Avelinas since 1880, against 755 Averlys. Avelina is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avelina against Averly, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avelina Averly

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 101 years and Averly for 6 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Avelina Averly
Total US births 1,804755
Most in one year 7377
Babies in 2025 7372
Estimated living today 1,500750
Median age today 165
Peak year 20252020
Best rank 2,438th girls2,302nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,438th2,458th
First recorded 19142008
Girls / boys 1,804 / 0755 / 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 Avelinas alive today are over 16; half the Averlys are over 5. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Avelina Averly
England and Wales 1818

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 Averly.