Auden
#2,583 for girls in 2025, 67 births · #1,793 for boys in 2025, 89 births
Given to boys 65.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 129 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,887since 1975
Auden over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,583 | 67 | #1,793 | 89 |
| 2024 | #2,508 | 71 | #1,878 | 85 |
| 2023 | #2,020 | 97 | #1,941 | 80 |
| 2022 | #2,404 | 76 | #1,804 | 90 |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | #1,632 | 103 |
| 2020 | #2,850 | 57 | #1,368 | 129 |
| 2019 | #2,814 | 59 | #1,479 | 116 |
| 2018 | #2,744 | 62 | #1,591 | 104 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 | #1,644 | 96 |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | #1,575 | 104 |
| 2015 | #2,773 | 63 | #1,717 | 90 |
| 2014 | #3,719 | 41 | #1,608 | 97 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | #1,763 | 82 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 | #2,132 | 63 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | #2,173 | 60 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 | #2,432 | 52 |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 | #2,281 | 57 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 | #2,744 | 42 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #3,319 | 30 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #3,014 | 33 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #3,794 | 22 |
| 2001 | — | #4,476 | 17 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | — | #6,042 | 10 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,159 | 12 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Auden! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1990, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Auden is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#838 · 1 in 5,587
- Illinois#1,028 · 1 in 7,701
- New York#1,229 · 1 in 9,904
- Pennsylvania#1,253 · 1 in 11,091
- Texas#1,500 · 1 in 15,557
Best ever in a state: #593 in Wisconsin, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | #838 | 7 | 1 in 5,587 |
| Illinois | #1,028 | 7 | 1 in 7,701 |
| New York | #1,229 | 9 | 1 in 9,904 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,253 | 5 | 1 in 11,091 |
| Texas | #1,500 | 11 | 1 in 15,557 |
| California | #1,704 | 9 | 1 in 21,042 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Auden
- 85 spots since 2024 (#1,878 → #1,793)
- 425 spots since 2020 (#1,368 → #1,793)
- 76 spots since 2015 (#1,717 → #1,793)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2020 at #1,368 (129 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,380 boys born in 2020 were named Auden (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,192 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 45.7% of all boys named Auden (863) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 12 | #4,797 (1975) | #4,866 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 80 | #4,697 (1993) | #5,656 |
| 2000s | 356 | #2,281 (2007) | #3,181 |
| 2010s | 863 | #1,479 (2019) | #1,811 |
| 2020s | 576 | #1,368 (2020) | #1,736 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Auden in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 36,464 of them was named Auden, which outranked 80.6% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,390Tirzah46
- #3,390Xaila46
- #3,390Zakiya46
- #3,435Auden45
- #3,435Aayat45
- #3,435Abbey45
- #3,435Adrielle45
- #3,491Abrianna44
- #3,491Adeya44
- #3,491Alanii44
Tied with 55 names at #3,435; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 16,985 of them was named Auden, which outranked 88.4% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).