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Avaleigh vs Avalyn

American parents have registered 3,697 Avalyns since 1880, against 1,207 Avaleighs. Avalyn is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avaleigh 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 2022, when Avaleigh had 96 and Avalyn had 151.

Side by side

  Avaleigh Avalyn
Total US births 1,2073,697
Most in one year 98295
Babies in 2025 41136
Estimated living today 1,2003,700
Median age today 79
Peak year 20212017
Best rank 1,980th girls907th girls
Rank in 2025 3,645th1,548th
First recorded 20051932
Girls / boys 1,207 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Avalyns alive today are over 9; half the Avaleighs are over 7. That is 2 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 Avaleigh Avalyn
England and Wales 80124

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: Avaleigh and Avalyn.