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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

April

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#542

down −40 places

2025 births

557

down −52 births

All-time births

242,925

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1980
11,472 births
Best rank
#23
in 1979
First recorded
1917
#4,113 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1981
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
107 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198011,472#26Peak
  2. 198111,406#25
  3. 197910,902#23
  4. 198210,060#32
  5. 19789,590#27

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #23 in 1979 · peak births 11,472 in 1980

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

667 boys · 242,925 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where April has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.