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Avri vs Avril

American parents have registered 3,484 Avrils since 1880, against 606 Avris. Avril is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Avri 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

Avril has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Avri had 6 and Avril had 6.

Side by side

  Avri Avril
Total US births 6063,484
Most in one year 62155
Babies in 2025 14108
Estimated living today 6003,300
Median age today 1114
Peak year 20152008
Best rank 3,059th girls1,504th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st1,844th
First recorded 19971919
Girls / boys 570 / 363,479 / 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 Avrils alive today are over 14; half the Avris are over 11. That is 3 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: Avri and Avril.