Apryl
Feminine
Nobody knows what April means. The Romans themselves guessed, connecting Aprilis to aperire, to open, because the buds open; modern scholarship suspects an Etruscan borrowing and leaves the question there.
How old is the name Apryl?
Apryl first appears in US birth records in 1942 — 83 years ago. The typical Apryl alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 3,000 people named Apryl are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Apryl most popular?
Apryl peaked in 1981, reaching #1139 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 8,968 places below that high. See the whole 1981 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Aprilis to Apryl
The story of Apryl
The Roman calendar is easier to read than its month names. The year originally began in March, which is why September, October, November and December are named seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth and sit in the ninth to twelfth positions: two months were added at the start, January and February, and the numbering was never fixed. March is Mars, May is probably Maia, June is Juno, July and August were renamed for Caesar and Augustus, and February is named for a purification ritual. April is the one that resists. The Romans offered aperire, to open, which is the sort of explanation ancient writers produced routinely and which modern linguistics rarely accepts; the alternative, that the name came from Etruscan along with much else in the calendar, is plausible and unproven.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Aprilis, the Roman month, has no established etymology. The classical derivation from aperire, to open, is a Roman guess of the same kind they made about many of their own words, and an Etruscan origin connected to Aphrodite has been proposed. Apryl is a modern American respelling; its peak is 1981.
How the name formed
- Aprilis
- April
- Apryl
Related forms: April · Abril · Avril
Pronouncing Apryl
AY-prill
Two syllables, stress on the first. April and Apryl are homophones; the y does the work of the i.
Nicknames for Apryl
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1942
- Most girls named
- 1981120 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1139reached in 1981
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%9 in 2025, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Apryl in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- April in English — spelling variant
- Abril in Spanish — same name
- Avril in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Illinois.
Apryls among us
people named Apryl are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Apryl
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Apryl
- #10107
- Apryl on the 2025 chart
- #477
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Apryl went to 9 girls in 2025, but April is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 566, which makes it the 477th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,630 places above the chart.
- April557
- Apryl9
About 1 girl in 2,840 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Apryl itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Amaryllis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Apryl's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amaryllis climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amaryllis's path sketches the road Apryl is walking now.
Apryl sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Apryl beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Apryl in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The month is universally understood and needs no explanation.
- Two syllables and five letters.
- The spelling is distinctive without changing the sound.
- April is the standard spelling by an enormous margin.
- The month's own meaning is genuinely unknown.
- The 1981 peak dates this respelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Apryls are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,000 people named Apryl are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Apryl?
- Apryl is one of 2 recorded spellings. April is the more common one — 557 births in 2025 against 9 for Apryl.
- How popular is the name Apryl in 2025?
- Apryl ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Apryl?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Apryl — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Apryl with classmates?
- Apryl will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Apryl
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