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April
Pronounced /ˈeɪ.pɹɪl/
Rank in 2024
#502
Born in 2024
607
Peak year
1980 · #26
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 607 girls were named April, about 1 in every 2,658.
- It peaked in 1980 with 11,473 babies, ranked #26.
- It first shows up in the records in 1917.
- 242,361 girls have been named April since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named April per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 4.2Gen X1965–80
- 3.0Millennials1981–96
- 0.6Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 93 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 1,368 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 22,348 babies, 0.62 per 1,000. Gen X: 106,372 babies, 4.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 85,430 babies, 3.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 18,660 babies, 0.64 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,090 babies, 0.40 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English apprile, Aprill, re-Latinised from Middle English aueril, from Old French avrill, from Latin Aprīlis (“of the month of the goddess Venus”), perhaps based on Etruscan 𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌖 (apru), from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē, “Venus”). Displaced native Old English ēastermōnaþ (“April”, literally “Easter month”), see Eastermonth.
- A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English]; used since the early 20th century.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈeɪ.pɹɪl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for April, CC BY-SA 4.0.