Avielle
Feminine · “God is my father”
Avielle is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 648 girls against 6 boys since 1880.
Avielle joins a Hebrew element to a French ending: Aviel means God is my father, and the -elle is the diminutive that French attaches to women's names.
How old is the name Avielle?
Avielle first appears in US birth records in 2001 — 24 years ago. The typical Avielle is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Avielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avielle most popular?
Avielle peaked in 2020, reaching #2135 nationally. Today it ranks #3577, 1,442 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Avielle
Ours, offered as ours. Aviel is a real biblical name, appearing in Samuel, and it is one of a family of Hebrew names built on av, a father — Abraham, Abigail, Aviv, Avner. Avielle takes it and adds the French -elle, which is what French does to make a name feminine and small at once. Whether any family made that join deliberately is not documented. What is certain is that the Hebrew half means something specific and good, and the French half means small and dear.
Meaningscholars disagree
God is my father
Hebrew Aviel joins av, a father, with the possessive and the element meaning God; it is a documented biblical name. Whether Avielle was built on it or assembled from the Av- and -elle pieces of modern naming is not recorded, and the two produce the same spelling.
Pronouncing Avielle
ah-vee-EL
Three syllables with the stress at the end. Some families say AY-vee-el.
Nicknames for Avielle
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
- 2001
- Most girls named
- 202085 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2135reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −14.3%42 in 2025, from 49
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.
Avielle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aviel in Hebrew — related form
- Avielle in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Avielles among us
people named Avielle are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 38,268 born in 2025 was named Avielle
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Katrinia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avielle's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Katrinia climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Katrinia's path sketches the road Avielle is walking now.
Avielle sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Avielle is headed
Avielle should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Avielle beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avielle in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Avi and Ellie are both complete short forms with their own histories.
- A documented Hebrew name stands behind the first half.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- The stress is unsettled between the first and third syllables.
- Avielle, Aviella and Aviel are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound as such.
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Frequently asked
- How many Avielles 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 Avielle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Avielle in 2025?
- Avielle ranks #3577 among US girl names in 2025, with 42 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avielle?
- About 1 in every 38,268 US girls born in 2025 was named Avielle — 42 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avielle with classmates?
- Avielle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Avielle
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