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Avajade vs Avalyn

American parents have registered 3,697 Avalyns since 1880, against 21 Avajades. Avalyn is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avajade against Avalyn, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avajade Avalyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Avalyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1932 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Avajade had 11 and Avalyn had 295.

Side by side

  Avajade Avalyn
Total US births 213,697
Most in one year 11295
Babies in 2025 under 5136
Estimated living today 203,700
Median age today 89
Peak year 20172017
Best rank 9,341st girls907th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,548th
First recorded 20171932
Girls / boys 21 / 03,697 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Avajade and Avalyn.