Name: Avril

Gender: Female

Usage: Avril is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.

People having the name Avril are in general originating from France, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Meaning: The meaning of the name Avril is: April, Opening buds of spring.

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Numerology of the first name Avril: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst

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The name Avril is ranked on the 3,295th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.

We estimate that there are at least 105300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Avril has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Avril for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

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Avril is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name:

  • Avril Angers, English comedian
  • Avril Benoît, Canadian broadcaster
  • Kim Campbell, Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's first female Prime Minister
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor, English pianist, conductor, and composer
  • Avril Doyle, Irish politician
  • Avril (Frédéric Magnon), French electro-ambient musician
  • Avril Hoare, Irish radio personality
  • Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
  • Avril Phali, South African football player
  • Avril Williams, South African rugby player

Surname:

  • Édouard-Henri Avril or his pseudonym Paul Avril, French painter
  • Jacky Avril, French slalom canoer
  • Jane Avril, French dancer
  • Margaux Avril, French singer
  • Philippe Avril, French explorer
  • Prosper Avril, Haitian politician
  • Yola d'Avril, French actress

Fictional characters:

  • Avril Kent, character on Emmerdale
  • Avril Incandenza, mother of protagonist Hal Incandenza in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

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.

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