Avalon
Avalon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 130 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1300.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2014158 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1907
- 4,065people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,065 girls have been named Avalon in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 158 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2010s alone account for 33%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Avalon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 26 | |
| 1920s | 194 | |
| 1930s | 133 | |
| 1940s | 34 | |
| 1950s | 43 | |
| 1980s | 123 | |
| 1990s | 465 | |
| 2000s | 1,085 | |
| 2010s | 1,332 | |
| 2020s | 625 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Avalon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Avalon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Madelynpeak 2008
- Nathaliapeak 2006
- Oliviapeak 2014
- Nataliapeak 2006
- Mariampeak 2024
- Keylapeak 2016
- Emelynpeak 2013
- Acadiapeak 2018
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.