Avalynn drifts onto the tongue like a sunset-pink petal on a warm Caribbean breeze—she is, etymologically, a lyrical braid of “Ava,” the age-old Germanic song for “desired” or “little bird,” entwined with “Lynn,” the Celtic word for “lake,” so that her full meaning shimmers somewhere between a coveted bird skimming silver water and the fabled Isle of Avalon whispered in Arthurian tales; small wonder, then, that modern parents, charmed by this fusion of myth and melody, have coaxed Avalynn steadily up the U.S. charts since her first shy appearance in 2002, treating each new birth as another delicate note in a rising bolero of popularity.