Avril

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Recent name from French Avril, ‘April’; increasingly popular in modern Ireland

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ævɹɪl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Avril is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 22K
  • USUnited States1 in 95K

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)

≈13,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
96 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AvrilLatin(measured from records)
ΑβρίλGreek(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)

Recent name from French Avril, ‘April’; increasingly popular in modern Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Avril 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.

Where Avril is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 110K—Avril12
ZA South Africa—≈6,000 est.≈1 in 9.4K—Avril13
GB United Kingdom—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 12K3Avril32
US United States—3,5161 in 95K3.4KAvril96
AR Argentina—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 22K118Avril46
UY Uruguay#191≈1,100 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Avril23
PY Paraguay—≈330 est.≈1 in 22K—Avril8
GY Guyana—1831 in 4.1K183——

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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Avril is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Australia, South Africa

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ãvrįl, Avrïl, Āvril, Avríl

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Avril

  • Hebrew given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, South Africa, United Kingdom, Argentina

    Also written אבריל, Averil, Abril, Averill, Avrìl

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Avril 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.

  • Although generally taken as the French form of the name of the fourth month (see April), this has also been influenced by an Old English female personal name derived from eofor ‘boar’ + hild ‘battle’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Aname of recent origin, coming from French, Avril, ‘April’. It is increasingly popular in modern Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In French, du latin (mensis) Aprīlis « mois d’Aphrodite ».

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • English: although generally taken as the French form of the name of the fourth month (see APRIL ), this has also been influenced by the English surname Everill , which is from an Old English female personal name composed of the elements eofor boar + hild battle.

    as a word

  • In French, April, the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, having 30 days

    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)

190019502000Avril Coleridge-Taylor, b. 1903Avril Angers, b. 1918Avril Pyman, b. 1930Avril Elgar, b. 1932Kim Campbell, b. 1947Avril Doyle, b. 1949Avril Starling, b. 1953Avril Haines, b. 1969Avril Lavigne, b. 1984

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)

InformalHi Avril,

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 74 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Avril
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.4K#5,024
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025183#412
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024118#699
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025108—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202095#5,024
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)201592—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)201592—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19955—
GB United KingdomNRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present)20153#806

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

How do you pronounce Avril?
A machine transcription gives /ævɹɪl/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Avril mean, and where does it come from?
Recent name from French Avril, ‘April’; increasingly popular in modern Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
How common is the name Avril?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,516 people named Avril in 2020, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
How common is Avril compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Avril is the 191st most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
Is Avril a male or female name?
Avril 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.
What are other forms of the name Avril?
In the etymology graph, April and Abril are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Avril have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Avril in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled avril.

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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, “Avril” — the 191st most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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