Austen
#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births · #2,516 for boys in 2025, 53 births
Given to boys 86.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 540 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,125since 1917
Austen 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 | #3,459 | 44 | #2,516 | 53 |
| 2024 | #2,976 | 55 | #1,957 | 80 |
| 2023 | #3,091 | 53 | #2,315 | 60 |
| 2022 | #2,928 | 57 | #2,117 | 70 |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 | #1,943 | 77 |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 | #1,548 | 108 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #1,872 | 80 |
| 2017 | #2,464 | 73 | #1,746 | 88 |
| 2016 | #2,117 | 92 | #1,663 | 95 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | #1,427 | 120 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #1,348 | 127 |
| 2013 | #5,317 | 25 | #1,352 | 125 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 | #1,266 | 139 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | #1,178 | 150 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 | #1,195 | 150 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #1,218 | 147 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #1,090 | 170 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #1,098 | 166 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | #932 | 202 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #950 | 184 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #1,039 | 157 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | #942 | 174 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #819 | 205 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #788 | 214 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #705 | 248 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #575 | 340 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #532 | 384 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #449 | 489 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #423 | 531 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #420 | 540 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 | #502 | 403 |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | #564 | 328 |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 | #638 | 260 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #674 | 227 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | #704 | 210 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #744 | 177 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #783 | 145 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #961 | 96 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #965 | 90 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | #1,020 | 80 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #1,084 | 68 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #1,153 | 61 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #1,293 | 52 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,456 | 43 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #1,547 | 39 |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,246 | 11 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Austen! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Austen
- 559 spots since 2024 (#1,957 → #2,516)
- 539 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #2,516)
- 1,089 spots since 2015 (#1,427 → #2,516)
- Biggest jump: 178 spots in 1988 (#961 → #783)
- Biggest drop: 166 spots in 2007 (#932 → #1,098)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1995 at #420 (540 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1986–2003
- Highest: 1 in 3,525 boys born in 1995 were named Austen (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,228 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.7% of all boys named Austen (3,712) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 18 | #3,385 (1926) | #3,801 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 68 | #2,379 (1979) | #3,012 |
| 1980s | 851 | #744 (1989) | #1,101 |
| 1990s | 3,712 | #420 (1995) | #548 |
| 2000s | 1,867 | #705 (2000) | #958 |
| 2010s | 1,182 | #1,178 (2011) | #1,460 |
| 2020s | 412 | #1,943 (2021) | #2,138 |
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.
Austen in 1917
Top boys' names in 1917
More about 1917
boys
925,482 boys got a published name in 1917; 1 in 185,096 of them was named Austen, which outranked 13.5% of the 4,602 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 621 names at #3,981; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.