Avelyn
Avelyn was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,650 among girls’ names; 1,092 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Avelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Avelyn?
#3,650 among girls’ names, 2025
Avelyn fell from #2,298 in 2015 to #3,650 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 45.4 to 25.5 per million.
91 babies in 2016, the peak
Avelyn peaked in 2016, when 91 girls were given it, #2,131 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,650 | 25.5 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,970 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,991 | 23.1 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,490 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,255 | 29.9 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,785 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,180 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,872 | 34.1 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,405 | 43.4 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,131 | 51.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #2,298 | 45.4 |
| 2014 | 78 | #2,357 | 43.7 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,630 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,549 | 40.3 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,912 | 33.5 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,630 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,881 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,662 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,546 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,527 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,971 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,334 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,450 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,356 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Avelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avelyn, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,092 Americans ever recorded as Avelyn. The median Avelyn alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 900 people named Avelyn (893 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 847 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 335 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 749 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,130 babies since 1880, Avelyn is the fourth most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 551 babies (7.4%), again the fourth 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 Avelyn
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 Avelyn and names like it
- Compare Avelyn and AvalynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAvelyn peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Avelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.