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 | |
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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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 236,367 of them was named Austen, which outranked 38.6% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,599Zyion9
- #11,599Zynasia9
- #11,599Zyrah9
- #12,579Austen8
- #12,579Aailyah8
- #12,579Aalana8
- #12,579Aaliyana8
- #13,832Aahna7
- #13,832Aala7
- #13,832Aaleah7
Tied with 1,252 names at #12,579; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 12,001 of them was named Austen, which outranked 92.5% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,086Kamryn172
- #1,086Sylas172
- #1,089Benson171
- #1,090Austen170
- #1,090Bernardo170
- #1,090Bishop170
- #1,090Earl170
- #1,095Denver169
- #1,095Eddy169
- #1,095Jericho169
Tied with 4 names at #1,090; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.