Aviles

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Avilés in CR Costa Rica.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

How Aviles is read●(measured from records)

Aviles is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish64%

  second-person singular present subjunctive of avilar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English23%

  third-person singular simple present indicative of avile

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Aviles is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name6 spellings in the group

  Also written Avìles, Avilès, Avíles, Áviles, Avilés

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Avilés

• Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Avilés, Avilès, Авилес

• a separate surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Avilés

• Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Philippines

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Avilés

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Rick Avilesb. 1952USAmerican actor, stand-up comedian (1952-1995)
• Dionel M. Avilesb. 1961USUnited States Under Secretary of the Navy from October 8, 2004 to May 19, 2009
• Marisa Avilésb. 1963MXMexican writer
• Ricardo Aranedab. 1971CLnot in their usual nameChilean boxer
• Esteban Siriasb. 1980CRnot in their usual namefootballer
• Mike Avilesb. 1981USBaseball player from the United States
• YOVNGCHIMb. 1996USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican rapper
• Tomás Avilesb. 2004ARArgentinean footballer
• Lourdes Avileshistorian
• Pedro Anilo Aviles GangasCLChilean cyclist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Aviles come from?

third-person singular simple present indicative of avile Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Aviles?

A machine transcription gives /abilɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.

What does the name Aviles mean?

In Spanish, second-person singular present subjunctive of avilar

In which country does Aviles have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Aviles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aviles.

How common is the name Aviles?

In the United States, the national register counted 25,716 people named Aviles in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.

How common is Aviles compared with other names?

In Puerto Rico, Aviles is the 76th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.