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Apryl

#10,183 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Apryl has been given to 3,148 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #10,183 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 120 recorded.

Babies named Apryl, 2025

1 in 368,000

Apryl over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Apryl: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Apryl means

Apryl is a given name.

The naming story behind Apryl

Wikidata records Apryl as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q122232237, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,148 girls were recorded with the name Apryl between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 120 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,139 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,765 in 2020 to #10,183 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,152 in 2015 to #10,183 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Apryl?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,183
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Apryl 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Apryl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Apryls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Apryl was born before 1983 — so the typical Apryl is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,119
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (865).

Is Apryl 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
−3,762
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,418
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,031
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.26×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.5%
Peak was 1981 (120)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,139
1981

Spellings of Apryl

Apryl is not the most common spelling — April is, with 73.6% against Apryl's 0.95%.

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 Apryl is used

Across 1910–2025, Apryl was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 149,424 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Apryl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Apryl around the world

Where Apryl 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
    1996–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    1990–1990
    #517
    in 1990
  • France
    1998–2025
    #2,418
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1978–2002
    #475
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Apryl in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Apryl. Linked forms have their own page here.

AbrilApril

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Apryl by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,183
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,418
Best rank ever
#1,139
1981
Peak year
1981
120 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,148
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Apryl

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

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Names with a curve like Apryl

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Apryl, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Apryl

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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