Fun Facts About the Name Avalene
- 268 babies named Avalene: U.S. records list 268 babies given the name Avalene from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Avalene Mean?
Avalene is a rare English spelling of the medieval feminine name Aveline. Aveline is generally explained as a diminutive of the Germanic name Ava, formed with the Old French diminutive ending -eline, the same ending found in Emmeline and Adeline. The meaning of Ava itself is not securely known. It appears in Frankish and German-speaking lands before the Norman Conquest, but it does not correspond clearly to any single Germanic word, so the meaning of Avalene is best described as uncertain rather than as a fixed phrase.
A separate word aveline exists in French, where it means a filbert or hazelnut. It comes from Latin abellana (nux), "nut of Abella," a town in Campania known for its nuts. Some name dictionaries connect the personal name Aveline to the hazelnut, but the two words only coincide in French spelling; there is no clear evidence that the given name was formed from the nut word, and the resemblance is probably no more than a homonym. The spelling Avalene, with a in the second syllable and the ending -lene, also resembles twentieth-century American names such as Marlene, Darlene, and Charlene, though whether those names influenced this spelling cannot be shown.
Avalene Name History & Origins
Aveline came to England with the Normans. Latinized forms such as Avelina appear in medieval English and Norman records, and Aveline de Forz, countess of Aumale and Devon, is a documented thirteenth-century bearer of the name. The name also survived in England as a surname. It was never common, and it largely fell out of use as a given name in England before the end of the Middle Ages.
The related base name Ava was borne by Ava of Denain, a ninth-century Frankish noblewoman and religious poet who was blind and lived as a nun in the Low Countries; her cult kept the shorter name in use in parts of France and Germany.
The spelling Avalene is not well documented in older records and appears mainly in English-speaking countries in recent times as one of several interchangeable spellings alongside Aveline, Avaline, Avelina, and Evaline, which parish registers and family records often treated as the same name. This makes the history of the Avalene spelling specifically hard to trace. Aveline has also been used for modern fictional characters, including a title character in the 2012 video game Assassin's Creed III: Liberation; that use is recent and separate from the name's medieval history.
How Popular is the Name Avalene?
Avalene has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2016. Its best rank was #3,185 in 1934.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #9,525 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #9,611 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #9,690 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #9,763 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #7,003 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2020 | #6,112 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #9,196 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #7,809 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2017 | #6,320 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2016 | #4,872 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2015 | #5,680 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2014 | #7,356 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2013 | #11,137 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #12,368 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2011 | #13,550 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2010 | #9,871 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2009 | #12,581 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1934 | #3,185 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1925 | #4,066 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1924 | #3,419 | 9 | 0.0007% |
| 1922 | #5,083 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1921 | #5,183 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1916 | #4,484 | 5 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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