How Many People Are Named Avril?

3,322

people named Avril are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 102,885 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,484 babies named Avril in Social Security records from 1919 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,821

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,713

See the top 100

Peak Year

2008

155 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: French (Rare), English (Rare)
Pronunciation: A-VREEL (French), AV-ril (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

French form of APRIL.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Avril (99.9%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Avril alive today is about 17 years old, and 86% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 20 in 2025.

Under 30 2,845
85.6%
30 to 59 374
11.3%
60 and over 103
3.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Avril first appears in the records in 1919 and was given most often in 2008, to 155 babies. In 2025, 108 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1919 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Avril has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,504, in 2008. In 2025 it ranked #1,845.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,845
Best rank#1,504 (2008)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,721 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Avril alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Avril were born in Texas than in any other state: about 451 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Avril was given 3.4 times as often in Florida, 2.3 times in Texas and 1.8 times in New York.

Texas 451
California 394
Florida 353
New York 202
Illinois 82
New Jersey 62
Arizona 53
Georgia 43
North Carolina 20
Colorado 20
Virginia 19
Indiana 15
Utah 12
Ohio 10
Michigan 8
Pennsylvania 5
Massachusetts 5
Alabama 5

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