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

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Peak · girls
1921 · 43 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,213
since 1907

Avalon over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Avalon has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201924peak #1,168, 1921girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,458147#5,86115
2024#1,609130#7,76510
2023#1,780114#8,9218
2022#1,601132—
2021#1,652126—
2020#1,654124—
2019#1,598133—
2018#1,727119#10,7606
2017#1,643131—
2016#1,485154—
2015#1,504151#9,5687
2014#1,436158—
2013#1,576136#10,7286
2012#1,904105—
2011#1,728119—
2010#1,678126—
2009#1,546146—
2008#1,685132—
2007#1,679131—
2006#1,590135—
2005#1,95098—
2004#1,811105—
2003#1,88597—
2002#1,86695—
2001#2,04882—
2000#2,40364#10,3495
1999#2,30764—
1998#2,79847—
1997#2,36056—
1996#2,42353—
1995#2,73544—
1994#2,25558—
1993#2,76843—
1992#2,68745#7,4226
1991#2,93539—
1990#5,54916#7,1786
1989#4,35821—
1988#4,17221—
1987#3,33127—
1986#4,18619—
1985#5,07714—
1984#8,1537—
1983#9,0156—
1982#7,4698—
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First appearance
1907

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.

Where Avalon is popular in 1924

No state had 5 or more girls named Avalon in 1924, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Avalon
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 151 spots since 2024 (#1,609 → #1,458)
  • 196 spots since 2020 (#1,654 → #1,458)
  • 46 spots since 2015 (#1,504 → #1,458)
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1907
  • Peaked 1921 at #1,168 (43 births)
  • Births halved by 1924, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,934
  • 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
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 31.6% of all girls named Avalon (1,332) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#2,061 (1907)#2,061
1910s26#2,900 (1915)#3,134
1920s194#1,168 (1921)#2,151
1930s133#1,731 (1939)#2,408
1940s34#3,738 (1942)#4,445
1950s43#4,161 (1956)#4,838
1960s0——
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1980s123#3,331 (1987)#5,720
1990s465#2,255 (1994)#2,882
2000s1,085#1,546 (2009)#1,846
2010s1,332#1,436 (2014)#1,628
2020s773#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 1924

girls
#2,062
19 births · 1 in 65,730 girls

Top girls' names in 1924

  1. #1Mary73,534
  2. #2Dorothy39,996
  3. #3Helen31,194
  4. #4Betty30,600
  5. #5Margaret26,547
  6. #6Ruth23,601
  7. #7Virginia18,620
  8. #8Mildred15,853
  9. #9Doris15,786
  10. #10Frances15,183
  11. #2,062Avalon19
More about 1924

girls

1,248,872 girls got a published name in 1924; 1 in 65,730 of them was named Avalon, which outranked 65.1% of the 5,900 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Avalon
  1. #1,992Versa20
  2. #1,992Vona20
  3. #1,992Zela20
  4. #2,062Avalon19
  5. #2,062Annelle19
  6. #2,062Ardyth19
  7. #2,062Bernadean19
  8. #2,137Adelaida18
  9. #2,137Agness18
  10. #2,137Aleda18

Tied with 74 names at #2,062; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1923
Risers
  1. ↑ 459Bettylou#1,327 → #868
  2. ↑ 374Doloris#1,350 → #976
  3. ↑ 332Gaynell#1,283 → #951
  4. ↑ 313Toby#1,305 → #992
  5. ↑ 262Letty#1,213 → #951
Fallers
  1. ↓ 388Izola#966 → #1,354
  2. ↓ 305Fumiko#953 → #1,258
  3. ↓ 303Clemmie#941 → #1,244
  4. ↓ 276Cruz#793 → #1,069
  5. ↓ 271Eris#457 → #728

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1924 →