Given name & surname
Apple
“sweet fruit; one who is cherished”
Apple is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “sweet fruit; one who is cherished.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “sweet fruit; one who is cherished.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Apple through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 475
- 0 boys · 475 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 44 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,516 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −17%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,516 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 16.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 44 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 947 as a first name in 2020; 6,807 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Apple’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Apple has a diminutive in Apleng. In English usage, Apple as a surname shares a linguistic root with the German form APFEL. Apple has a related form in Apel.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Apple has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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