Meaning not yet researched.
April: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 557 in 2025. Its best rank was #23 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #23 in 1979; #542 in 2025. Every baby recorded as April in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#542 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #23.
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April: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 557 girls in 2025. Peak: #23 in 1979 · most girls in one year: 11,472 (1980).
In 2025, 557 US girls were named April, making it the 542nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 40 places from #502 in 2024. That is 52 fewer than the 609 girls named April in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #23, reached in 1979. The most girls given the name in a single year was 11,472, in 1980. For comparison, it was #403 in 2015 and #402 in 1950.
Social Security card records list April in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 243,592 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 77,186 babies named April.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,332 US girls were named April; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 824. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,886 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, April ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #333 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Abril (9,329 babies since 1880) and Apryl (3,148 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aprille, Aprile and Aprill are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aprille (518), Aprile (481), Aprill (406), Apryle (131), Apryll (71), Aprel (70), Aprell (19), Apriel (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for April in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 16 | #333 | #357 |
| Texas | 99 | #346 | #247 |
| Nevada | 7 | #378 | #288 |
| Virginia | 21 | #380 | #359 |
| California | 86 | #383 | #208 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #471 | #665 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #474 | #506 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #483 | #521 |
| Florida | 37 | #491 | #394 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #492 | #580 |
| Colorado | 11 | #503 | #411 |
| New York | 33 | #506 | #366 |
| Georgia | 22 | #511 | #623 |
| Arizona | 13 | #518 | #345 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #528 | — |
| Minnesota | 9 | #547 | #554 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #570 | #755 |
| Washington | 11 | #592 | #339 |
| Oregon | 5 | #636 | #685 |
| Missouri | 8 | #645 | #469 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #650 | #603 |
| Michigan | 11 | #695 | #590 |
| Illinois | 13 | #710 | #463 |
| Utah | 5 | #712 | #428 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #754 | #852 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #757 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #887 | #1,069 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #911 | #437 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,052 | #695 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 557 | #542 | — | — |
| 2024 | 609 | #502 | — | — |
| 2023 | 588 | #516 | — | — |
| 2022 | 588 | #530 | — | — |
| 2021 | 594 | #519 | — | — |
| 2020 | 585 | #517 | — | — |
| 2019 | 636 | #492 | — | — |
| 2018 | 656 | #477 | — | — |
| 2017 | 695 | #455 | — | — |
| 2016 | 824 | #405 | — | — |
| 2015 | 807 | #403 | — | — |
| 2014 | 795 | #405 | — | — |
| 2013 | 718 | #424 | — | — |
| 2012 | 785 | #396 | — | — |
| 2011 | 796 | #396 | — | — |
| 2010 | 842 | #375 | — | — |
| 2009 | 914 | #355 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,022 | #329 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,093 | #310 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,035 | #317 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,055 | #302 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,180 | #277 | 5 | #11,480 |
| 2003 | 1,118 | #278 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,252 | #254 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,300 | #245 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,451 | #214 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,554 | #199 | 5 | #10,013 |
| 1998 | 1,662 | #182 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,602 | #188 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,764 | #177 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,076 | #155 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,521 | #127 | 11 | #5,127 |
| 1993 | 2,933 | #112 | 16 | #3,831 |
| 1992 | 3,231 | #103 | 10 | #5,259 |
| 1991 | 3,857 | #88 | 7 | #6,556 |
| 1990 | 4,572 | #73 | 12 | #4,422 |
| 1989 | 4,734 | #66 | 26 | #2,475 |
| 1988 | 4,840 | #65 | 18 | #2,969 |
| 1987 | 5,295 | #58 | 25 | #2,275 |
| 1986 | 5,677 | #53 | 33 | #1,839 |
| 1985 | 6,691 | #47 | 25 | #2,172 |
| 1984 | 7,566 | #42 | 19 | #2,534 |
| 1983 | 8,209 | #39 | 23 | #2,214 |
| 1982 | 10,060 | #32 | 40 | #1,541 |
| 1981 | 11,406 | #25 | 23 | #2,205 |
| 1980 | 11,472 | #26 | 45 | #1,411 |
| 1979 | 10,902 | #23 | 36 | #1,599 |
| 1978 | 9,590 | #27 | 29 | #1,797 |
| 1977 | 8,068 | #29 | 26 | #1,909 |
| 1976 | 7,761 | #30 | 26 | #1,879 |
| 1975 | 8,245 | #25 | 29 | #1,708 |
| 1974 | 8,454 | #28 | 21 | #2,055 |
| 1973 | 7,264 | #33 | 21 | #1,985 |
| 1972 | 6,120 | #48 | 17 | #2,246 |
| 1971 | 5,939 | #56 | 19 | #2,129 |
| 1970 | 4,603 | #82 | 16 | #2,300 |
| 1969 | 3,802 | #97 | 13 | #2,420 |
| 1968 | 3,622 | #96 | 7 | #3,380 |
| 1967 | 4,466 | #79 | 13 | #2,246 |
| 1966 | 3,251 | #108 | 14 | #2,136 |
| 1965 | 2,812 | #136 | 5 | #3,950 |
| 1964 | 2,602 | #151 | — | — |
| 1963 | 2,196 | #175 | 5 | #4,064 |
| 1962 | 1,814 | #199 | 6 | #3,656 |
| 1961 | 1,807 | #201 | 7 | #3,369 |
| 1960 | 1,934 | #191 | 5 | #4,060 |
| 1959 | 1,560 | #211 | 9 | #2,831 |
| 1958 | 1,352 | #224 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,308 | #233 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,212 | #236 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,251 | #229 | — | — |
| 1954 | 950 | #273 | — | — |
| 1953 | 822 | #290 | — | — |
| 1952 | 824 | #281 | — | — |
| 1951 | 503 | #356 | — | — |
| 1950 | 394 | #402 | — | — |
| 1949 | 464 | #365 | — | — |
| 1948 | 383 | #407 | — | — |
| 1947 | 512 | #354 | — | — |
| 1946 | 460 | #352 | — | — |
| 1945 | 242 | #457 | — | — |
| 1944 | 165 | #568 | — | — |
| 1943 | 220 | #502 | — | — |
| 1942 | 232 | #485 | — | — |
| 1941 | 176 | #525 | — | — |
| 1940 | 105 | #675 | — | — |
| 1939 | 58 | #925 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,242 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,877 | — | — |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,591 | — | — |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,105 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,471 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,113 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).