"Variant of Avellino"
The name Avelino is commonly a male name from the "Spanish" origin.
Avelino is a masculine given name recorded in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, where it also occurs as a surname. It corresponds to the Italian Avellino, the name of a city in Campania and the family name of the sixteenth-century Theatine priest Andrew Avellino, who is called Andres Avelino in Spanish and Andre Avelino in Portuguese. The Italian form has one l; the Spanish and Portuguese form has one.
Avellino means "Borrowed from the city of Avellino place of hazelnut trees. It is derived from avellanos hazelnut trees".
The pronunciation of Avelino is ah-veh-LEE-no.
