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Avril

#1,845 in 2025Girls' name

Form of April

Avril has been given to 3,484 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #1,845 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 155 recorded.

Babies named Avril, 2025

1 in 30,700

Avril over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Avril: meaning, origin, and history

Form of April

French

What Avril means

Avril is a form of April.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Avril → April. The family’s proposed meaning is “of the month of the goddess Venus”, recorded in English with the source elements Aprīlis.

Origin, language, and formation

Avril is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Avril comes through French avril.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include April.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Avril is pronounced /ˈævɹɪl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,479 girls were recorded with the name Avril between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 155 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,504 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,831 in 2020 to #1,845 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,660 in 2015 to #1,845 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Avril between 1995 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1995; its best national rank was #8,981 in 1995.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Avril?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,700
108 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,845
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,278 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Avril 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,278 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Avril. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Avrils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Avril was born before 2011 — so the typical Avril is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,350
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (1,233).

Is Avril 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
+9
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−14
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−185
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.7%
Peak was 2008 (155)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,504
2008

Spellings of Avril

Avril is not the most common spelling — April is, with 46.5% against Avril's 0.67%.

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 Avril is used

Across 2016–2025, Avril was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 12,134 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

127 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 3,704
  2. 2Texas1 in 10,000
  3. 3New York1 in 11,111
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 12,500
  5. 5California1 in 14,286
  6. 6Utah1 in 14,286
  7. 7Arizona1 in 25,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 25,000

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.

Avril around the world

Where Avril 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
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    1964–2024
    #631
    in 2024
  • France
    1954–2025
    #943
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,109
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Avril

People whose public names include Avril, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Avril in other languages

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

Avrill

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

Avril by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,845
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 14
Best rank ever
#1,504
2008
Peak year
2008
155 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,479
Count in 2025
108

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,981
1995
Peak year
1995
5 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Avril

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

AvrieAvreeAbrilAvryAvriAvreyAvrielAvrianaAvreenSherrilSherilAvrielleAvrylAverilAprilAvroraCherilAvraCyrilAvriannaMerrilKarilAvreetTerril

Names with a curve like Avril

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

LaynaKamiyaNariahYanaAmariahMarliAngelyMarlieTahliaHarmonieRhyanMalak

Sibling names for Avril

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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