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Avonlea vs Avonte

American parents have registered 1,421 Avonleas since 1880, against 506 Avontes. Avonlea is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avonlea against Avonte, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avonlea Avonte

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, Avonlea for 26 years and Avonte for 10 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Avonlea Avonte
Total US births 1,421506
Most in one year 9539
Babies in 2025 555
Estimated living today 1,400500
Median age today 1020
Peak year 20172000
Best rank 2,053rd girls2,425th boys
Rank in 2025 2,998th12,008th
First recorded 19901990
Girls / boys 1,421 / 00 / 506

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 Avontes alive today are over 20; half the Avonleas are over 10. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Avonlea and Avonte.