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 | — | |
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| 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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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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,010 · 1 in 6,534
- Pennsylvania#1,121 · 1 in 7,186
- Texas#2,499 · 1 in 22,702
Best ever in a state: #188 in Hawaii, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #1,010 | 29 | 1 in 6,534 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,121 | 7 | 1 in 7,186 |
| Texas | #2,499 | 7 | 1 in 22,702 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
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| Colorado | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 14,295 of them was named Avalon, which outranked 90.5% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,717Nila120
- #1,717Noelia120
- #1,717Yasmeen120
- #1,727Avalon119
- #1,727Abriella119
- #1,727Anneliese119
- #1,727Bennett119
- #1,741Aracely118
- #1,741Aviva118
- #1,741Eleni118
Tied with 13 names at #1,727; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 302,693 of them was named Avalon, which outranked 23.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,670Zyen7
- #9,670Zylar7
- #9,670Zylus7
- #10,760Avalon6
- #10,760Aabid6
- #10,760Aadhiran6
- #10,760Aadyant6
- #12,156Aabir5
- #12,156Aagam5
- #12,156Aakif5
Tied with 1,395 names at #10,760; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.