Avelina
Avelina was given to 73 girls in 2025, #2,442 among girls’ names; 1,804 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Avelina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avelina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avelina mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Avelina is “a female given name”
/abeˈlina/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avelina?
#2,442 among girls’ names, 2025
Avelina rose from #3,354 in 2015 to #2,442 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.9 to 45.4 per million.
73 babies in 2025, the peak
Avelina peaked in 2025, when 73 girls were given it, #2,442 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 49 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,442 | 45.4 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,234 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,939 | 35.5 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,078 | 32.3 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,223 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,844 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,726 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,156 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,638 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,702 | 36.1 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,354 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,192 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,578 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,725 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,259 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,203 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,956 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,661 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,576 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,970 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,717 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,770 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,094 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,424 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,382 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,514 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,529 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,097 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,908 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,433 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,095 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,033 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,545 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,116 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,402 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,535 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,976 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,159 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,942 | 6.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,809 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,568 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,849 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,180 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,281 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,831 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,777 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,639 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,388 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,394 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,184 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,131 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,798 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,076 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,009 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,080 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,319 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,622 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,602 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,564 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,902 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,914 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,207 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,839 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,539 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,711 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,925 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,794 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,334 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,977 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,146 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,878 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,439 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,913 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,605 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,460 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,885 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,151 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,295 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,826 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,319 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,026 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,526 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,938 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,595 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,461 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,533 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,939 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,470 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,844 | 17.9 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,691 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,031 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,370 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,104 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,965 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,941 | 16.8 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,600 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,383 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,987 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,929 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,494 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,698 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,117 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,396 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,261 | 7.8 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,958 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,825 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,666 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avelina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avelina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avelina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avelina, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 1,804 Americans ever recorded as Avelina. The median Avelina alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,978 people named Avelina (2,972 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 62 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 125 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 104 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 162 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 377 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 621 |
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 Avelina born?
The states with the most babies named Avelina are California, Florida and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 22 | #1,155 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,719 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,192 | 0.1× |
Where Avelina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avelina is most over-represented in California: since 1914 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 Avelina 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,074 babies since 1880, Avelina is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 183 babies (40%), again the 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 Avelina
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 Avelina and names like it
- Compare Avelina and AvelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAvelina peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avelina since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Avelina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Avelina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avelina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.