Avonlea
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AY-von-lee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #2,998 for girls
Avonlea is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “river + meadow”. In 2025 it ranked 2,998th for girls in the US (55 babies).
What does Avonlea mean?
Modern: invented place name from Avon 'river' and lea 'meadow'
“river + meadow”
Avonlea is the fictional Prince Edward Island village where L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables is set.
Is Avonlea a girl's or a boy's name?
Avonlea is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 55 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Avonlea in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,998th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 55 about 1 in 29,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 55 girls in the US were named Avonlea, making it the 2,998th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,277th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 95 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the girls named Avonlea in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 61 girls in the US were given Avonlea or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,301, up from #2,998 for this spelling alone.
- Avonlea 55
- Avenly 6
Avonlea in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,998 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,395 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,329 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,661 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,715 |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,277 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,482 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,334 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,053 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,269 |
| 2015 | 90 | #2,123 |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,267 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,725 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,679 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,694 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,408 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,012 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,571 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,706 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,133 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,614 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,355 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,125 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,440 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,665 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,060 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,653 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,829 |
Nicknames for Avonlea
- Ava 1,836 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Avonlea
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Braelynn, Teagan, Adalynn, Mckenna, Raelynn, Briella, Kennedy, Brylee, Addilyn, Avianna, Lyanna
Other spellings of Avonlea
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
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, “Avonlea: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/avonlea, updated 20 October 2026.