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Avalon

#1,459 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Avalon has been given to 4,282 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #1,459 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 158 recorded.

Babies named Avalon, 2025

1 in 22,600

Avalon over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avalon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Avalon means

Avalon is a given name.

The naming story behind Avalon

Wikidata records Avalon as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q66459140, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,213 girls were recorded with the name Avalon between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,169 in 1921.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,655 in 2020 to #1,459 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,505 in 2015 to #1,459 in 2025.

In the United States, 69 boys were recorded with the name Avalon between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,884 in 2025.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,664 in 2015 to #5,884 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Avalon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,600
147 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,459
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avalon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,633 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avalon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avalons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avalon was born before 2009 — so the typical Avalon is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,821
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (1,332).

Is Avalon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+150
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+196
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+46
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.0%
Peak was 2014 (158)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,169
1921

Spellings of Avalon

Avalon is not the most common spelling — Adalyn is, with 46.6% against Avalon's 6.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Avalon is used

Across 2016–2025, Avalon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 14,655 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 7,143
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 9,091
  3. 3Oregon1 in 10,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 10,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 11,111
  6. 6Missouri1 in 11,111
  7. 7Ohio1 in 12,500
  8. 8Arizona1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Avalon around the world

Where Avalon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Avalon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,459
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 196
Best rank ever
#1,169
1921
Peak year
2014
158 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,213
Count in 2025
147

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,884
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,884
2025
Peak year
2025
15 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Avalon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AvalynAvayahAvaniAvalynnAvarieAvaleeAvayaAvaryAvahAvareeFallonAvacynAvariAvannaAvantiShalonAvanellDillonAvamarieAvanniAvaleighFalonAvaroseAvalina

Names with a curve like Avalon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Avalon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EmaKaleaYaneliTahliaKalinaCamdenJaelElaynaDayannaDarianaJazzlynTaliah

Sibling names for Avalon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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