Avril
Avril was given to 108 girls in 2025, #1,845 among girls’ names; 3,484 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,320 Americans named Avril and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Avril by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Avril mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Avril is “a female given name from French, equivalent to English April.” Its etymology gives the sense “April” (avril).
20th-century invention from French avril (“April”).
/ˈævɹɪl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Avril?
#1,845 among girls’ names, 2025
Avril fell from #1,660 in 2015 to #1,845 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 72.3 to 67.2 per million.
155 babies in 2008, the peak
Avril peaked in 2008, when 155 girls were given it, #1,504 among girls’ names. The 108 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,845 | 67.2 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,854 | 66.7 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,814 | 69.2 |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,828 | 67.7 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,874 | 64.6 |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,831 | 66.2 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,657 | 75.7 |
| 2018 | 115 | #1,775 | 67.6 |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,833 | 64.9 |
| 2016 | 124 | #1,714 | 70.0 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 129 | #1,660 | 72.3 |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,958 | 57.1 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,826 | 63.3 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,592 | 77.2 |
| 2011 | 144 | #1,525 | 81.9 |
| 2010 | 133 | #1,622 | 74.8 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,794 | 65.3 |
| 2008 | 155 | #1,504 | 82.0 |
| 2007 | 154 | #1,505 | 80.1 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,990 | 52.6 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,670 | 64.4 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,576 | 68.1 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,509 | 70.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,647 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,837 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,613 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,878 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,832 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,105 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,661 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,668 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,074 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,042 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,029 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,494 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,485 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,161 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,945 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,811 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,060 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,337 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,176 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,659 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,982 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,349 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,789 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,263 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,005 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,170 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,881 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,117 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,794 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,543 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,426 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,776 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,628 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,796 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,350 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,851 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,967 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,057 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,565 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,644 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,336 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,461 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,066 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,447 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,862 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,395 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #3,991 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,719 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,147 | 4.3 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,226 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,375 | 3.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,468 | 5.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,893 | 5.2 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,786 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,335 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,384 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,610 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,618 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,340 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,903 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,631 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,931 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,742 | 9.9 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,183 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,436 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,885 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Avril a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Avril has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 89 years of records.
Girls and boys named Avril: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Avril, and how old are they?
3,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,484 Americans ever recorded as Avril. The median Avril alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,516 people named Avril (3,421 women and girls, 95 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,724 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 80 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 206 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 177 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,460 |
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 Avril born?
The states with the most babies named Avril are Florida, Texas and California, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 20 | #800 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,927 | 1.3× |
| California | 11 | #1,852 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,091 | 0.4× |
| New York | 6 | #1,867 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,265 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,193 | 0.6× |
Where Avril is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Avril is most over-represented in Florida: since 1919 it was given 1.9 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 Avril 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,230 babies since 1880, Avril is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 108 of their 113 babies (96%), 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 Avril
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 Avril and names like it
- Compare Avril and AverilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAvril peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Avril since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Avril: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Avril.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Avril alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.