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Avrey vs Avril

American parents have registered 3,484 Avrils since 1880, against 659 Avreys. Avril is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avrey against Avril, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avrey Avril

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 90 years in which either name was published, Avril for 83 years and Avrey for 7 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Avrey Avril
Total US births 6593,484
Most in one year 51155
Babies in 2025 under 5108
Estimated living today 6503,300
Median age today 1814
Peak year 20062008
Best rank 4,685th girls1,504th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,844th
First recorded 19951919
Girls / boys 381 / 2783,479 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Avreys alive today are over 18; half the Avrils are over 14. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Avrey and Avril.