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The first name 
Avaline

Avaline is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Avaline meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Avaline is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Avaline. In the SmartGenius ranking, Avaline is #4,804 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Avaline.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Avaline

Avaline -
at home in California and Texas

If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Avaline, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Avaline living in one state or another (if your name is Avaline and you live outside of California and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 596,517 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Avaline. So, if your name is Avaline it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Avaline already makes you special.

Avaline has 7 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With seven letters, the name Avaline has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, v, a, l, i, n and e

If you take all the letters in the name Avaline – A, v, a, l, i, n and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Alvenia or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Avaline

If your name is Avaline and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Avaline

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Avaline, you can simply say:

Apple

Violin

Apple

Lion

Igloo

Nut

Elephant

This is how the name Avaline is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Avaline in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Avaline

Avaline

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Avaline

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Avaline is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
V
A
L
I
N
E

Have you ever waved the name Avaline

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
V
A
L
I
N
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Avaline sounds like this: