Avalon
Avalon was given to 147 girls in 2025, #1,459 among girls’ names; 4,282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,900 Americans named Avalon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avalon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avalon?
#1,459 among girls’ names, 2025
Avalon rose from #1,505 in 2015 to #1,459 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 84.6 to 91.5 per million.
162 babies in 2025, the peak
Avalon peaked in 2025, when 162 babies were given it (147 girls, #1,459 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 130 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,459 | 91.5 |
| 2024 | 130 | #1,609 | 80.2 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,782 | 71.0 |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,601 | 80.5 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,653 | 76.8 |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,655 | 76.7 |
| 2019 | 133 | #1,598 | 79.2 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,729 | 70.0 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,643 | 75.9 |
| 2016 | 154 | #1,487 | 86.9 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 151 | #1,505 | 84.6 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,436 | 88.4 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,578 | 77.5 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,905 | 59.6 |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,730 | 67.6 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,678 | 70.9 |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,546 | 79.5 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,686 | 69.8 |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,681 | 68.1 |
| 2006 | 135 | #1,591 | 71.0 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,950 | 53.0 |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,812 | 57.2 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,886 | 53.1 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,867 | 52.9 |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,045 | 45.5 |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,403 | 35.2 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,311 | 36.1 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,797 | 26.6 |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,357 | 32.2 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,423 | 30.2 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,731 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,254 | 32.5 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,770 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,684 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,936 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,575 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,366 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,182 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,340 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,200 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,098 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,223 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,113 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,533 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,304 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,538 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,220 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,184 | 4.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,513 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,465 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,290 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,374 | 3.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,612 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,766 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,453 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,406 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,739 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,460 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,920 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,704 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,744 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,941 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,431 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,820 | 17.8 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,313 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,117 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,833 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,393 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,877 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,077 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,629 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,063 | 15.2 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,844 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,792 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 43 | #1,169 | 34.9 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,913 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,260 | 7.8 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,288 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,920 | 9.1 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,096 | 15.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avalon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,282 Americans recorded as Avalon, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 147 girls and 15 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Avalon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avalon, and how old are they?
3,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 4,282 Americans ever recorded as Avalon. The median Avalon alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,215 people named Avalon (3,042 women and girls, 173 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 42 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 423 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Avalon born?
The states with the most babies named Avalon are California, Texas and Ohio, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,281 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,054 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 10 | #890 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,562 | 0.5× |
| Oregon | 8 | #437 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,126 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 7 | #830 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,067 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,474 | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #809 | 0.2× |
Where Avalon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avalon is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Avalon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,823 babies since 1880, Avalon is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 162 of their 542 babies (30%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Avalon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Avalon and names like it
- Compare Avalon and AvalynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvalon peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avalon since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Avalon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avalon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.