Avril
Feminine · “April”
Avril is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 3,479 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Avril is April in French, and the month's Latin name may come from aperire — to open — for the season when the buds do.
How old is the name Avril?
Avril first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Avril alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 3,300 people named Avril are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Avril most popular?
Avril peaked in 2007, reaching #1503 nationally. Today it ranks #1844, 341 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
From aperire to Avril
The story of Avril
Aprilis was the second month of the old Roman calendar, and Ovid gives the Venus derivation while later grammarians prefer the opening one. French made Avril, which became a given name in Britain in the early twentieth century. A Canadian singer of the name carried it further from 2002. It is in current American use.
Meaningscholars disagree
April, opening
From the French avril and the Latin Aprilis. The usual reading connects it to aperire, 'to open', for the unfolding of buds. A second account derives it from Aphrodite, since the month was sacred to Venus. Neither is settled; the Romans themselves gave both.
How the name formed
- aperire
- Aprilis
- avril
- Avril
Related forms: Avril · April · Aprile
Pronouncing Avril
AV-ril
Two syllables, stress on the first in English. French says a-VREEL with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Avril
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
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 2007154 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1503reached in 2007
- Change vs 2023
- −2.7%108 in 2025, from 111
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.
Avril in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Avril in French — same name
- April in English — related form
- Aprile in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, California.
Avrils among us
people named Avril are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,882 born in 2025 was named Avril
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Roshanda test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Avril's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Roshanda climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Roshanda's path sketches the road Avril is walking now.
Avril 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
Where Avril is headed
Avril should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Avril beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Avril in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The opening-buds reading is concrete and unusually seasonal.
- It is standard in French without any change of spelling.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- The Latin derivation is genuinely disputed and was already in antiquity.
- The stress placement differs between English and French.
- One singer carries a strong association.
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Feminine · #1844 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Avrils are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Avril are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Avril in 2025?
- Avril ranks #1844 among US girl names in 2025, with 108 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Avril?
- About 1 in every 14,882 US girls born in 2025 was named Avril — 108 in all.
- Will my child share the name Avril with classmates?
- Avril will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Avril
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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