Avalon
#1,458 for girls in 2025, 147 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 98.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1921 · 43 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,213since 1907
Avalon over time
Rank among girls' names. Avalon has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,458 | 147 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #1,609 | 130 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #1,780 | 114 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #1,601 | 132 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,652 | 126 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,654 | 124 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,598 | 133 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #1,643 | 131 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,485 | 154 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,504 | 151 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #1,436 | 158 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,576 | 136 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #1,904 | 105 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,728 | 119 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,678 | 126 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,546 | 146 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,685 | 132 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,679 | 131 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,590 | 135 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,811 | 105 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,885 | 97 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,866 | 95 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,048 | 82 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,403 | 64 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,798 | 47 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,360 | 56 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,423 | 53 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #2,935 | 39 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | — | |
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| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | — | |
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| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 | — | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,731 | 20 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,447 | 12 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,914 | 17 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,731 | 10 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,817 | 19 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,307 | 13 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,110 | 16 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,825 | 20 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,381 | 14 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,076 | 18 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,617 | 13 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,062 | 19 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,840 | 22 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,785 | 23 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,168 | 43 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 | — | |
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| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 | — | |
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| 1916 | #3,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | — | |
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| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Avalon! It came in at #2,061, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1907–1914, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Avalon
- 151 spots since 2024 (#1,609 → #1,458)
- 196 spots since 2020 (#1,654 → #1,458)
- 46 spots since 2015 (#1,504 → #1,458)
- Debuted 1907
- Peaked 1921 at #1,168 (43 births)
- Births halved by 1924, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,934 girls born in 2025 were named Avalon (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,168 in 1921, was only 1 in 28,676 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.6% of all girls named Avalon (1,332) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #2,061 (1907) | #2,061 |
| 1910s | 26 | #2,900 (1915) | #3,134 |
| 1920s | 194 | #1,168 (1921) | #2,151 |
| 1930s | 133 | #1,731 (1939) | #2,408 |
| 1940s | 34 | #3,738 (1942) | #4,445 |
| 1950s | 43 | #4,161 (1956) | #4,838 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 123 | #3,331 (1987) | #5,720 |
| 1990s | 465 | #2,255 (1994) | #2,882 |
| 2000s | 1,085 | #1,546 (2009) | #1,846 |
| 2010s | 1,332 | #1,436 (2014) | #1,628 |
| 2020s | 773 | #1,458 (2025) | #1,626 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Avalon in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
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1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 18,856 of them was named Avalon, which outranked 89.8% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,933Teairra99
- #1,933Tiarra99
- #1,933Veronika99
- #1,950Avalon98
- #1,950Alanis98
- #1,950Cameran98
- #1,950Citlalli98
- #1,969Cadance97
- #1,969Cortney97
- #1,969Dara97
Tied with 18 names at #1,950; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.