The name April comes from the name of the month, probably originally derived from Latin ‘aperire’ for ‘to open’, referring to the opening of flowers.
April is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name April isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, April ranks 420. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named April. In the entire USA, approximately 238,015 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name April. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
The name April comes from the name of the month, probably originally derived from Latin ‘aperire’ for ‘to open’, referring to the opening of flowers.
April has... been commonly used as a given name since the 1940s.
This was a real surprise! April is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #23 in the year 1979, when 10,940 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter. This made April much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name April was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, April ranked 486 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 585 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that April will remain a universally popular name.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet April. Because: There are women and girls named April in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name April is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Tennessee, where April ranks on place 86. The greatest chance of meeting April, however, is in Alaska, where one in 383 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 648 women and girls and in Massachusetts, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,204 women and girls for their name before you once get April as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name April is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is April and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name April, you can simply say:
Apple
Pig
Rocket
Igloo
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
April
April
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
P
R
I
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
P
R
I
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. April sounds like this:
