April

A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning to open; the fourth month of the year.

Babies a year
136
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#542
down from #502
UK popularity
#321
136 babies · up from #360

How April has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#358#473#587201520202025#542

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#403
2016#404
2017#457
2018#475
2019#494
2020#517
2021#520
2022#530
2023#515
2024#502
2025#542

April by the numbers

In 2025, 136 babies in England and Wales were named April. In the US, 691 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its American peak was 11,475 babies in 1980, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.

At its height, in 1980, about 1 in 160 American girls born that year was called April.

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April as a share of American girls born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of April. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Abrilapril, opening297 in the US (2017)
  • Avrilapril; the spring month112 in the US (2017)
  • Aprylopening month; a modern spelling of april22 in the US (2017)
  • Ariellion of god2,655 in the US (2017)
  • Adriafrom the adriatic sea region68 in the US (2017)
  • Auriagolden; a form of Aurora49 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as April

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