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Avalee vs Avalon

American parents have registered 4,282 Avalons since 1880, against 1,624 Avalees. Avalon is still ahead, with 162 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avalee against Avalon, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avalee Avalon

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

Of the 82 years in which either name was published, Avalon for 80 years and Avalee for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Avalee Avalon
Total US births 1,6244,282
Most in one year 111162
Babies in 2025 48162
Estimated living today 1,5003,900
Median age today 814
Peak year 20182014
Best rank 1,830th girls1,436th girls
Rank in 2025 3,249th1,458th
First recorded 19111907
Girls / boys 1,624 / 04,213 / 69

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Avalons alive today are over 14; half the Avalees are over 8. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Avalee Avalon
England and Wales 15211

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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