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Avelardo vs Aveline

American parents have registered 1,266 Avelines since 1880, against 344 Avelardos. Aveline is still ahead, with 67 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avelardo Aveline

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 55 years in which either name was published, Aveline for 28 years and Avelardo for 27 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Avelardo Aveline
Total US births 3441,266
Most in one year 17179
Babies in 2025 967
Estimated living today 3101,200
Median age today 218
Peak year 20132016
Best rank 5,171st boys1,327th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd2,583rd
First recorded 19321923
Girls / boys 0 / 3441,266 / 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 Avelardos alive today are over 21; half the Avelines are over 8. That is 13 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.

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