In 2025, 201 US girls were named Abril, making it the 1,150th most common girls’ name of the year, up 16 places from #1,166 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 206 girls named Abril in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #438, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 737. For comparison, it was #985 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Abril in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 7 babies. In all, 9,329 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,723 babies named Abril.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,376 US girls were named Abril; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 318. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,996 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Abril ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #676 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include April (243,592 babies since 1880) and Apryl (3,148 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Abriel, Aubriel and Abrial are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Galician and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.