Given name & surname
Avelino
Avelino is a masculine given name. It is used in Spanish, Italian, and Cebuano.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Avelino through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,057
- 1,057 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #8,998 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −10%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,998 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,344 as a first name in 2020; 1,619 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Avelino’s family of names
Avelino may belong to the same name family as AVELLINO. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Avelino
- Avel·lí Corma CanósValencian chemistborn 1951
- Avelino CadillaUruguayan association football player (1918-1974)
- Avelino González MalladaSpanish politician and trade unionist (1894-1938)
- Avelino GuillénPeruvian lawyerborn 1954
- Samboy LimFilipino basketball player1962–2023
- Avelino Méndez RangelMexican politician1958–2021
- Avelino CachafeiroGalician musician; gaita player (1899–1972)
- Avelino Coelho da SilvaEast Timorese politicianborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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