Avalyn
Avalyn was given to 136 girls in 2025, #1,549 among girls’ names; 3,697 Americans have been recorded with it since 1932 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,670 Americans named Avalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avalyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avalyn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
From Ava + Lyn, or a variant of Aveline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avalyn?
#1,549 among girls’ names, 2025
Avalyn fell from #986 in 2015 to #1,549 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.08 per 1,000.
295 babies in 2017, the peak
Avalyn peaked in 2017, when 295 girls were given it, #907 among girls’ names. The 136 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 136 | #1,549 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,957 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 146 | #1,487 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 151 | #1,464 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 191 | #1,230 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 222 | #1,100 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 210 | #1,146 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 283 | #942 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 295 | #907 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 266 | #995 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 274 | #986 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 254 | #1,026 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 253 | #988 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,179 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 164 | #1,393 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 129 | #1,650 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,958 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,272 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,755 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,096 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,741 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,078 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,615 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,916 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,317 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,471 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avalyn, and how old are they?
3,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,697 Americans ever recorded as Avalyn. The median Avalyn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 2,556 people named Avalyn (2,550 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,785 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 902 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,770 |
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 Avalyn born?
The states with the most babies named Avalyn are Texas, California and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,362 | 0.8× |
| California | 13 | #1,662 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,718 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,255 | 1.2× |
| New York | 6 | #1,862 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,387 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,063 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,238 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #792 | 0.3× |
Where Avalyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avalyn is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1932 it was given 1.3 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 Avalyn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,175 babies since 1880, Avalyn is the third most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 136 of their 556 babies (24%), again the third 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 Avalyn
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 Avalyn and names like it
- Compare Avalyn and AvalynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAvalyn peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avalyn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Avalyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Avalyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avalyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.