Aspen

#266 for girls in 2025, 1,179 births · #920 for boys in 2025, 256 births
Given to girls 89.1% of the time

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Peak · girls
2022 · 1,518 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
24,726
since 1973

Aspen over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201973girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2661,179#920256
2024#2651,205#969233
2023#2151,394#1,034211
2022#1961,518#1,025216
2021#2001,502#1,060202
2020#2241,310#1,149169
2019#2521,285#1,193160
2018#2691,229#1,160165
2017#329999#1,402125
2016#361906#1,64197
2015#372879#1,74088
2014#395825#1,62795
2013#488618#2,09064
2012#506603#2,20959
2011#520561#2,26157
2010#600488#2,28756
2009#590511#2,34855
2008#701430#2,51550
2007#608494#2,50450
2006#573511#2,37552
2005#547525#2,46746
2004#550517#2,37647
2003#562494#2,78035
2002#557483#2,60337
2001#557468#2,68135
2000#570455#2,19645
1999#535473#2,30039
1998#591409#2,39436
1997#587396#2,02444
1996#629357#2,18338
1995#662322#1,75850
1994#708294#2,34733
1993#989187#2,16236
1992#1,312128#5,6609
1991#1,517102#4,47612
1990#2,01167#5,8238
1989#2,07260
1988#2,48943
1987#2,27647
1986#2,34443
1985#2,31743
1984#2,11147
1983#1,85856
1982#1,75563
1981#2,40940
1980#3,31825
1979#2,58235
1978#3,63720
1977#3,17624
1976#3,00224
1975#3,63718
1974#7,6806
1973#6,0808
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five girls were named Aspen! It came in at #6,080, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aspen
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1 spot since 2024 (#265#266)
  • 42 spots since 2020 (#224#266)
  • 106 spots since 2015 (#372#266)
  • Biggest jump: 323 spots in 1993 (#1,312#989)
  • Biggest drop: 93 spots in 2008 (#608#701)
Rise & fade · girls
49 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2022 at #196 (1,518 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 33 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1993–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,080
  • Highest: 1 in 1,080 girls born in 2022 were named Aspen (0.09%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,363 girls born in 2025 (0.07%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 33.9% of all girls named Aspen (8,393) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s135#2,582 (1979)#4,256
1980s467#1,755 (1982)#2,295
1990s2,735#535 (1999)#954
2000s4,888#547 (2005)#582
2010s8,393#252 (2019)#409
2020s8,108#196 (2022)#228

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aspen in 1973

girls
#6,080
8 births · 1 in 182,276 girls

Top girls' names in 1973

  1. #1Jennifer62,448
  2. #2Amy26,962
  3. #3Michelle26,935
  4. #4Kimberly23,531
  5. #5Lisa22,677
  6. #6Melissa22,479
  7. #7Angela20,898
  8. #8Heather19,347
  9. #9Stephanie17,263
  10. #10Rebecca14,868
  11. #6,080Aspen8
More about 1973

girls

1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 182,276 of them was named Aspen, which outranked 38.0% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aspen
  1. #5,580Zona9
  2. #5,580Zora9
  3. #5,580Zorana9
  4. #6,080Aspen8
  5. #6,080Abril8
  6. #6,080Adine8
  7. #6,080Adrienna8
  8. #6,666Aaryn7
  9. #6,666Adonna7
  10. #6,666Afiya7

Tied with 585 names at #6,080; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1972
Risers
  1. 4,091Cicely#4,793#702
  2. 2,295Aubrey#3,177#882
  3. 1,847Nyree#2,680#833
  4. 1,533Danyell#2,523#990
  5. 1,496Vonetta#2,311#815
Fallers
  1. 1,814Camisha#815#2,629
  2. 470Andra#904#1,374
  3. 416Cherilyn#823#1,239
  4. 284Keena#848#1,132
  5. 281Nicolle#734#1,015

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1973