Meaning not yet researched.
Avalon: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 147 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,169 in 1921.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,169 in 1921; #1,459 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Avalon in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,459 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1921, at #1,169.
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Avalon: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 147 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,169 in 1921 · most girls in one year: 158 (2014).
In 2025, 147 US girls were named Avalon, making it the 1,459th most common girls’ name of the year, up 150 places from #1,609 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 130 girls named Avalon in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,169, reached in 1921. The most girls given the name in a single year was 158, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,505 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Avalon in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 5 babies. In all, 4,282 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,351 babies named Avalon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,310 US girls were named Avalon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 154. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,934 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Avalon ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #438 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Avalynn (4,416 babies since 1880), Avalyn (3,697 babies since 1880) and Avelyn (1,092 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Avelin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Avelin (36).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Avalon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 8 | #438 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #809 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #830 | #977 |
| Ohio | 10 | #890 | #1,073 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,067 | #961 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,126 | #1,035 |
| California | 19 | #1,281 | #1,301 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,474 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,562 | #1,873 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,054 | #1,418 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,459 | 15 | #5,886 |
| 2024 | 130 | #1,609 | 10 | #7,827 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,782 | 8 | #9,000 |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 2020 | 124 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 2019 | 133 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,729 | 6 | #10,902 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 2016 | 154 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 2015 | 151 | #1,505 | 7 | #9,670 |
| 2014 | 158 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,578 | 6 | #10,867 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2006 | 135 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,407 | 5 | #10,508 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,689 | 6 | #7,497 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,580 | 6 | #7,249 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,372 | — | — |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,187 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,202 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,100 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,227 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,115 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,535 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,305 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,539 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,221 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,185 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,514 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,466 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,291 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,614 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,408 | — | — |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,432 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1921 | 43 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,913 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,097 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).