Avangeline
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 34 babies a year in the US.
Avangeline by the numbers
Avangeline was given to 34 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Avangeline
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Avangeline. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Angelinemessenger; a form of Angela214 in the US (2017)
- Angelinaangel; messenger; feminine form of Angelo1,550 in the US (2017)
- Angelisemessenger; a form of Angelica or Angeline23 in the US (2017)
- Angelenea form of angela; messenger or angel7 in the US (2017)
- Angelizemessenger; a form of Angela5 in the US (2017)
- Avanelle6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Avangeline
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