Abelino
Masculine · “From Avellino”
Abelino is a saint's name from an Italian town, and the town is named after a nut. It has nothing to do with Abel, whatever the spelling suggests.
How old is the name Abelino?
Abelino first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Abelino alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 600 people named Abelino are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abelino most popular?
Abelino peaked in 1931, reaching #1693 nationally. See the whole 1931 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Avellino to Abelino
The story of Abelino
A sixteenth-century Italian priest took the name of his birthplace in religion and became well enough known that the place name traveled as a personal name across the Catholic world — which is how a hazelnut-growing town in Campania ended up on birth certificates in Mexico and Texas. The nut itself carries the name in botany: the hazel's Latin species name is the town's, and the word avellana is the ordinary Spanish for a hazelnut to this day. So a child called this is named for a saint, who was named for a town, which was named for a tree, whose nuts are still sold under the town's name in every Spanish-speaking country.
Meaning
From Avellino
The name comes from a town in southern Italy, and the town's name comes from the hazelnut — the Latin word for the nut is built on the place, or the place on the nut, and either way the two are the same word. The b in this spelling is a Spanish spelling of a v and does not connect the name to Abel.
How the name formed
- Avellino
- Avelino
- Abelino
Related forms: Avelino · Avellino · Avelino
Pronouncing Abelino
ah-beh-LEE-noh
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Spanish says b and v almost identically, which is why both spellings exist.
Nicknames for Abelino
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most boys named
- 193118 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1693reached in 1931
- Change vs 2021
- +12.5%9 in 2023, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Abelino in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avelino in Spanish — same name
- Avellino in Italian — same name
- Avelino in Portuguese — same name
Abelinos among us
people named Abelino are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Abelino sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is musical, unambiguous in Spanish and easy for English speakers to approximate.
- It has a real place behind it that can be pointed at.
- Lino works as a short form in both languages.
- Avelino is the commoner spelling and his will be written that way by Spanish speakers.
- The first syllable will be read as the biblical Abel, which it is not.
- Four syllables will be shortened in American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Abelinos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Abelino are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Abelino in 2025?
- Abelino is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Abelino with classmates?
- Abelino will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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