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#9,513 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: apple

Apple has been given to 475 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #9,513 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Apple, 2025

1 in 332,000

Apple over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Apple: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: apple

English

What Apple means

Apple takes the English word apple into personal-name use.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From apple. As a surname, also an Americanized form of Appel or Apfel.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Apple (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Apple is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Appel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Apple is pronounced /ˈæp.əl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 475 girls were recorded with the name Apple between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,405 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,957 in 2020 to #9,513 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,044 in 2015 to #9,513 in 2025.

How common is Apple?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,513
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Apple sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Apple. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Apples were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Apple was born before 2010 — so the typical Apple is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
475
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (185).

Is Apple rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+5,994
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,556
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,469
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.7%
Peak was 2005 (44)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,405
2005

Spellings of Apple

Apple is not the most common spelling — Adele is, with 88.6% against Apple's 0.99%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Apple is used

Across 1910–2025, Apple was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 600,001 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Apple has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Apple around the world

Where Apple ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2008
    #3,860
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,743
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2005–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Apple by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,513
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,556
Best rank ever
#3,405
2005
Peak year
2005
44 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
475
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Apple

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Apple

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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