April
April was given to 557 girls in 2025, #542 among girls’ names; 243,592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 229,000 Americans named April and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 39 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of April by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does April mean?
Wiktionary, English section
April is “a female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English]; used since the early 20th century.” Its etymology gives the senses “of the month of the goddess Venus” (Aprīlis) and “Venus” (Ἀφροδίτη).
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 Etruscan 𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌖 (apru), from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē, “Venus”). Displaced native Old English ēastermōnaþ (“April”, literally “Easter month”), see Eastermonth.
/ˈeɪ.pɹəl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is April?
#542 among girls’ names, 2025
April fell from #403 in 2015 to #542 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.45 to 0.35 per 1,000.
11,517 babies in 1980, the peak
April peaked in 1980, when 11,517 babies were given it (11,472 girls, #26 among girls’ names). The 557 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 557 | #542 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 609 | #502 | 0.38 |
| 2023 | 588 | #516 | 0.37 |
| 2022 | 588 | #530 | 0.36 |
| 2021 | 594 | #519 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 585 | #517 | 0.36 |
| 2019 | 636 | #492 | 0.38 |
| 2018 | 656 | #477 | 0.39 |
| 2017 | 695 | #455 | 0.40 |
| 2016 | 824 | #405 | 0.47 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 807 | #403 | 0.45 |
| 2014 | 795 | #405 | 0.45 |
| 2013 | 718 | #424 | 0.41 |
| 2012 | 785 | #396 | 0.45 |
| 2011 | 796 | #396 | 0.45 |
| 2010 | 842 | #375 | 0.47 |
| 2009 | 914 | #355 | 0.50 |
| 2008 | 1,022 | #329 | 0.54 |
| 2007 | 1,093 | #310 | 0.57 |
| 2006 | 1,035 | #317 | 0.54 |
| 2005 | 1,055 | #302 | 0.57 |
| 2004 | 1,180 | #277 | 0.64 |
| 2003 | 1,118 | #278 | 0.61 |
| 2002 | 1,252 | #254 | 0.70 |
| 2001 | 1,300 | #245 | 0.72 |
| 2000 | 1,451 | #214 | 0.80 |
| 1999 | 1,554 | #199 | 0.88 |
| 1998 | 1,662 | #182 | 0.94 |
| 1997 | 1,602 | #188 | 0.92 |
| 1996 | 1,764 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 2,076 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 2,521 | #127 | 1.4 |
| 1993 | 2,933 | #112 | 1.6 |
| 1992 | 3,231 | #103 | 1.8 |
| 1991 | 3,857 | #88 | 2.1 |
| 1990 | 4,572 | #73 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 4,734 | #66 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 4,840 | #65 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5,295 | #58 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 5,677 | #53 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6,691 | #47 | 3.9 |
| 1984 | 7,566 | #42 | 4.5 |
| 1983 | 8,209 | #39 | 4.9 |
| 1982 | 10,060 | #32 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 11,406 | #25 | 6.8 |
| 1980 | 11,472 | #26 | 6.9 |
| 1979 | 10,902 | #23 | 6.8 |
| 1978 | 9,590 | #27 | 6.3 |
| 1977 | 8,068 | #29 | 5.3 |
| 1976 | 7,761 | #30 | 5.3 |
| 1975 | 8,245 | #25 | 5.7 |
| 1974 | 8,454 | #28 | 5.8 |
| 1973 | 7,264 | #33 | 5.0 |
| 1972 | 6,120 | #48 | 4.0 |
| 1971 | 5,939 | #56 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 4,603 | #82 | 2.6 |
| 1969 | 3,802 | #97 | 2.3 |
| 1968 | 3,622 | #96 | 2.2 |
| 1967 | 4,466 | #79 | 2.7 |
| 1966 | 3,251 | #108 | 1.9 |
| 1965 | 2,812 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 1964 | 2,602 | #151 | 1.4 |
| 1963 | 2,196 | #175 | 1.1 |
| 1962 | 1,814 | #199 | 0.92 |
| 1961 | 1,807 | #201 | 0.90 |
| 1960 | 1,934 | #191 | 1.0 |
| 1959 | 1,560 | #211 | 0.77 |
| 1958 | 1,352 | #224 | 0.67 |
| 1957 | 1,308 | #233 | 0.64 |
| 1956 | 1,212 | #236 | 0.60 |
| 1955 | 1,251 | #229 | 0.64 |
| 1954 | 950 | #273 | 0.49 |
| 1953 | 822 | #290 | 0.44 |
| 1952 | 824 | #281 | 0.44 |
| 1951 | 503 | #355 | 0.28 |
| 1950 | 394 | #401 | 0.23 |
| 1949 | 464 | #365 | 0.27 |
| 1948 | 383 | #407 | 0.23 |
| 1947 | 512 | #354 | 0.29 |
| 1946 | 460 | #352 | 0.29 |
| 1945 | 242 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1944 | 165 | #568 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 220 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1942 | 232 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1941 | 176 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1940 | 105 | #675 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 58 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,575 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,546 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,241 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,875 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,938 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,590 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,342 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,154 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,397 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,775 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,105 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,469 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is April a boy’s or a girl’s name?
April has been given almost only to girls: 667 boys in 107 years of records.
Girls and boys named April: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named April, and how old are they?
229,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 243,592 Americans ever recorded as April. The median April alive today is 46 years old; half are between 39 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 206,083 people named April (205,686 women and girls, 397 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 229,572 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 636 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 83,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named April born?
The states with the most babies named April are California, Texas and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26,666 | #383 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 20,783 | #346 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 11,304 | #887 | 0.9× |
| New York | 11,035 | #506 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 9,806 | #491 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 9,757 | #710 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 9,490 | #511 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 9,450 | #650 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 9,275 | #911 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 9,137 | #695 | 0.9× |
Where April is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, April is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1917 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of April with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 247,339 babies since 1880, April is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 557 of their 566 babies (98%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as April
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about April and names like it
- Compare April and AprylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sApril peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named April since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for April: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named April.
- The names of Generation XMost people named April alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.