April
About 243,592 American babies have been named April since 1917, most of them around 1980. In 2025 it ranked 542nd. About 230,000 Aprils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 243,592
- Estimated living today
- 230,000
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 26th
- Rank in 2025
- 542nd
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 242,925 / 667
How old the living Aprils are
born that year still alive today
Of the 243,592 babies given the name since 1917, about 230,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 12,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a month name, from English
From Middle English apprile, Aprill, re-Latinised from Middle English aueril, from Old French avrill, from Latin Aprīlis (“of the month of the goddess Venus”), perhaps based on ett 𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌖, from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (“Venus”). Displaced native, see Eastermonth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Aprils
- April Bowlby (born 1980)American actress
- April Winchell (born 1960)American voice actress
- April Pearson (born 1989)British actress
- April Ross (born 1982)American beach volleyball player
- April Ashley (1935–2021)English model, actress, author, and activist
- April O'Neil (born 1987)American pornographic actress
- April Hunter (born 1973)American professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and model
- April Matson (born 1981)American actress and singer
People named April with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where April is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, April is most concentrated in Tennessee (1.5×), Alaska (1.5×), Alabama (1.4×), Georgia (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular girls’ names the year April peaked:
April elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | April | 5,359 | 146th |
| France girls | April | 2,060 | 319th |
| Scotland girls | April | 872 | 147th |
| Ireland girls | April | 833 | 147th |
| Belgium girls | April | 155 | 570th |
| Northern Ireland girls | April | 136 | 195th |
| Switzerland girls | April | 59 | 750th |
| New Zealand girls | April | 49 | 100th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
April: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | April | 16 | 0.001% | 1,160th |
| French girls | Switzerland | April | 36 | 0.008% | 293rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | April | 7 | 0.011% | 176th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
April: rank by region
In 2025, April was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | April | 210 | 13 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, April appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
April among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | April | 24 | 69 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
April against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.