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Abree vs Abril

American parents have registered 9,329 Abrils since 1880, against 642 Abrees. Abril is still ahead, with 201 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Abree 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

Abril has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Abree had 6 and Abril had 30.

Side by side

  Abree Abril
Total US births 6429,329
Most in one year 46737
Babies in 2025 under 5201
Estimated living today 6409,200
Median age today 1416
Peak year 20122007
Best rank 3,464th girls438th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,150th
First recorded 19891969
Girls / boys 642 / 09,324 / 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 Abrils alive today are over 16; half the Abrees are over 14. That is 2 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: Abree and Abril.