Avelina — #3218 US girls' name
1,730 babies named Avelina in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 82% of names given to girls today.
23% of everyone ever named Avelina was born in this single decade.
64 babies were named Avelina in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Avelina
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,730 babies named Avelina between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Avelina currently holds the #3218 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 64 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Avelina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 405 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Avelina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 287 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Avelina in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Avelina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,730 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Avelina at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Avelina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1914
- Peak year (2016)
- 64
- Annual births at peak — across 111 years of records
Currently ranks #3218 among girls.
1,730 total births across 111 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 64 births in a single year.
Avelina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 405 births that decade — 23% of Avelina's all-time total
Avelina decade highlights
- Peak decade 405 births
- Runner-up 245 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Avelina's strongest decade
405 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Avelina by state
Where Avelina concentrates geographically — total births since 1914
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 287 | 16.6% |
| #2 | Texas | | 169 | 9.8% |
| #3 | New Mexico | | 10 | 0.6% |
| #4 | Florida | | 6 | 0.3% |
| #5 | Colorado | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #6 | New York | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #7 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.3% |
287 of 1,730 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 16.6% of nationwide
- Texas 9.8% of nationwide
- New Mexico 0.6% of nationwide
- Florida 0.3% of nationwide
- Colorado 0.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 16.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1914–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.