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Abrahan vs Abril

American parents have registered 9,329 Abrils since 1880, against 1,053 Abrahans. Abril is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Abrahan against Abril, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Abrahan Abril

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Abril for 53 years and Abrahan for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Abrahan Abril
Total US births 1,0539,329
Most in one year 45737
Babies in 2025 14201
Estimated living today 1,0009,200
Median age today 2316
Peak year 20032007
Best rank 2,349th boys438th girls
Rank in 2025 6,143rd1,150th
First recorded 19681969
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0539,324 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Abrahans alive today are over 23; half the Abrils are over 16. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Abrahan and Abril.