Avril is the French word for the month of April — from the Latin Aprilis, possibly from aperire ("to open") for the opening of spring. Over 40 million records sold worldwide. "Complicated," "Sk8er Boi," "Girlfriend" (2007 US #1). Eight Grammy nominations; Songwriters Hall of Fame (2022). Founded the Avril Lavigne Foundation in 2010 supporting youth with serious illnesses and disabilities; she was herself diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2014 after a long misdiagnosis. Star on the Canadian Walk of Fame (2010). Avril is also a Breton male saint. Pamela Anderson's middle name is Denise Avril.
Subject of countless 2000s pop-punk retrospectives.
Avril does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Avril reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.