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Aveline vs Averee

American parents have registered 1,266 Avelines since 1880, against 1,195 Averees. Aveline is still ahead, with 67 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aveline against Averee, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aveline Averee

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 36 years in which either name was published, Averee for 22 years and Aveline for 14 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Aveline Averee
Total US births 1,2661,195
Most in one year 17970
Babies in 2025 6717
Estimated living today 1,2001,200
Median age today 812
Peak year 20162016
Best rank 1,327th girls2,761st girls
Rank in 2025 2,583rd6,546th
First recorded 19231992
Girls / boys 1,266 / 01,144 / 51

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 Averees alive today are over 12; half the Avelines are over 8. That is 4 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: Aveline and Averee.