April
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the month name Aprill, OFr avrill < Lat aprīlis; first attested Thomas Averel 1275 SRWo
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪpɹəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
April is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 972(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6K
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #624 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 575 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 972 (inferred from the name graph)
≈720,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the month name Aprill, OFr avrill < Lat aprīlis; first attested Thomas Averel 1275 SRWo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
April counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | April | 52 |
| US United States | #258 | 206,083 | 1 in 1.6K | 206K | April | 575 |
| PH Philippines | #172 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 972 | — | April | 187 |
| GB United Kingdom | #382 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 15 | April | 237 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #248 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | April | 35 |
| SG Singapore | #198 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | April | 88 |
| IE Ireland | #208 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | April | 66 |
| NZ New Zealand | #275 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 13 | April | 101 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
April is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, French form of April; from the fourth month of the Roman calendar, beginning of spring
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, From April, the first month in the Roman calendar; the beginning of spring
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In English, ngélé vG, ze. the dry April sun from November to April
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In English, reference to the opening of buds and flowers in the spring). This was used as a given name for someone born, baptized, lived at the end of a valley, from Basque aran valley (see
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May. Abbreviation: Apr or Apr.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- April Ferryb. 1932UScostume designer (1932–2024)
- April Winchellb. 1960USAmerican voice actress
- April Graceb. 1962USAmerican actress
- April Heinrichsb. 1964USassociation football player
- April Stewartb. 1969USAmerican voice actress
- April Bowlbyb. 1980USAmerican actress
- April Matsonb. 1981USAmerican actress and singer
- April Rossb. 1982USAmerican beach volleyball player
- AJ Leeb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and author
- Maya Mooreb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 206K | #269 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 557 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 397 | #269 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 15 | #244 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2024 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 4 | #334 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name April mean, and where does it come from?
- from the month name Aprill, OFr avrill < Lat aprīlis; first attested Thomas Averel 1275 SRWo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is April a male or female name?
- April is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name April?
- In the United States, the national register counted 206,083 people named April in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is April compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, April is the 172nd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- In which country does April have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 719 thousand people named April in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled april.
- How do you pronounce April?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪpɹəl/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name April?
- In the etymology graph, Abril, Avril and Aprill are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about April?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aprilThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “April” — the 172nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.