Avangeline
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-VAN-juh-leen
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #4,986 for girls
Avangeline is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “good news”. In 2025 it ranked 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
What does Avangeline mean?
Greek: variant of Evangeline
“good news”
Evangeline was popularised by Longfellow's 1847 poem about an Acadian girl separated from her love.
Is Avangeline a girl's or a boy's name?
Avangeline is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 26 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Avangeline in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,986among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Avangeline, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,001st. Its busiest year was 2017, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Avangeline in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Avangeline in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,386 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,189 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,306 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,001 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,608 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,003 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,219 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,733 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,450 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,453 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,885 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,484 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,205 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,859 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,706 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
Nicknames for Avangeline
- Eva 848 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Avangeline
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Calliope Persephone Penelope Evangeline Arabella Ariadne Avianna Alessia Esme Marlowe Coraline Azalea
Names related to Avangeline
More Greek names
Luca Theodore Sophia George Theo Lucas Sofia Alexander Sebastian Phoebe Margot Luke Chloe Sophie Zoe Iris
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Avangeline: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/avangeline, updated 20 October 2026.