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How popular is “April” in the USA?

Number of people named “April” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “April” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “April” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “April” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “April” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “April” by birth year

This chart shows how “April” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 6 0.00000299 6 100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 100%
1925 13 0.000005572 13 100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 100%
1927 15 0.000006467 15 100%
1928 20 0.000008846 20 100%
1929 12 0.000005474 12 100%
1930 18 0.000008096 18 100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1932 14 0.000006631 14 100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 100%
1935 15 0.000007177 15 100%
1936 20 0.000009627 20 100%
1937 24 0.000011264 24 100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 100%
1939 58 0.000026322 58 100%
1940 105 0.000045599 105 100%
1941 176 0.000072237 176 100%
1942 232 0.000084925 232 100%
1943 220 0.000077943 220 100%
1944 165 0.000061336 165 100%
1945 242 0.000091221 242 100%
1946 460 0.000143961 460 100%
1947 512 0.000142131 512 100%
1948 383 0.000110934 383 100%
1949 464 0.000133151 464 100%
1950 394 0.000112464 394 100%
1951 504 0.000136818 504 100%
1952 824 0.000216956 824 100%
1953 822 0.000213305 822 100%
1954 950 0.000238651 950 100%
1955 1251 0.000311575 1251 100%
1956 1212 0.000293958 1212 100%
1957 1308 0.00031127 1308 100%
1958 1352 0.000327052 1352 100%
1959 1569 0.000377346 1560 9 99%
1960 1939 0.0004668 1934 5 99%
1961 1814 0.000437921 1807 7 99%
1962 1821 0.00045126 1815 6 99%
1963 2200 0.000555808 2195 5 100%
1964 2601 0.000669049 2601 100%
1965 2817 0.000777007 2812 5 100%
1966 3265 0.000939391 3251 14 99%
1967 4480 0.001319628 4467 13 99%
1968 3629 0.001074173 3622 7 100%
1969 3814 0.001097452 3801 13 99%
1970 4618 0.001280461 4602 16 99%
1971 5958 0.001735834 5939 19 99%
1972 6137 0.001952597 6120 17 99%
1973 7286 0.002415072 7265 21 99%
1974 8475 0.00278783 8454 21 100%
1975 8273 0.002739954 8244 29 99%
1976 7787 0.002566325 7761 26 99%
1977 8094 0.002548092 8068 26 99%
1978 9620 0.003031 9591 29 99%
1979 10938 0.003287646 10902 36 99%
1980 11518 0.003343876 11473 45 99%
1981 11428 0.003303487 11405 23 100%
1982 10100 0.002879165 10060 40 99%
1983 8232 0.002376897 8209 23 99%
1984 7584 0.002173841 7565 19 99%
1985 6716 0.001881702 6691 25 99%
1986 5710 0.00160525 5677 33 99%
1987 5320 0.001475477 5295 25 99%
1988 4857 0.001314464 4839 18 99%
1989 4760 0.001238149 4734 26 99%
1990 4584 0.001159779 4572 12 99%
1991 3865 0.00099223 3858 7 100%
1992 3241 0.000843731 3231 10 99%
1993 2949 0.00078217 2933 16 99%
1994 2532 0.000681075 2521 11 99%
1995 2076 0.000566879 2076 100%
1996 1764 0.000483659 1764 100%
1997 1602 0.00044184 1602 100%
1998 1662 0.000451851 1662 100%
1999 1559 0.000422051 1554 5 99%
2000 1451 0.000383872 1451 100%
2001 1300 0.000347279 1300 100%
2002 1252 0.000334912 1252 100%
2003 1118 0.000294031 1118 100%
2004 1185 0.000310134 1180 5 99%
2005 1055 0.000274393 1055 100%
2006 1035 0.000261615 1035 100%
2007 1093 0.000273408 1093 100%
2008 1022 0.000260007 1022 100%
2009 914 0.000239256 914 100%
2010 841 0.000227559 841 100%
2011 796 0.000217618 796 100%
2012 785 0.000214635 785 100%
2013 718 0.000196946 718 100%
2014 795 0.000214495 795 100%
2015 807 0.000218054 807 100%
2016 824 0.000224603 824 100%
2017 694 0.000194061 694 100%
2018 656 0.000186581 656 100%
2019 635 0.000182948 635 100%
2020 585 0.000175119 585 100%
2021 594 0.000175327 594 100%
2022 588 0.000173803 588 100%
2023 587 0.000177277 587 100%
2024 607 0.000182364 607 100%

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