April
April is ranked 502nd among girls in 2024 (607 births). Its best rank was 23rd, in 1979.
- Rank in 2024
- #502up 14 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6070.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 198011,473 births
- Best rank
- #23in 1979
- Since 1917
- 242,361people given the name
The story in the numbers
242,361 girls have been named April in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 11,473 births — 0.69% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 405 → 502).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1970s alone account for 32%. It has spent 86 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 25 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named April | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 14 | |
| 1920s | 111 | |
| 1930s | 196 | |
| 1940s | 2,959 | |
| 1950s | 10,177 | |
| 1960s | 28,305 | |
| 1970s | 76,946 | |
| 1980s | 75,948 | |
| 1990s | 25,773 | |
| 2000s | 11,420 | |
| 2010s | 7,551 | |
| 2020s | 2,961 |
In 1980, its biggest year
April was the 26th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1980 were Jennifer, Amanda, Jessica, Melissa and Sarah. See all of 1980.
Names that rose and fell with April
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sharapeak 1979
- Mellisapeak 1979
- Shaunapeak 1979
- Jamipeak 1977
- Shaunnapeak 1978
- Christalpeak 1978
- Melissapeak 1979
- Shannapeak 1978
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.