Afton
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 85.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1917 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,223since 1895
Afton 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #3,639 | 42 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #3,033 | 54 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #2,674 | 64 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #2,115 | 86 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #2,128 | 88 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #2,113 | 90 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #2,236 | 84 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #2,247 | 85 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #2,039 | 96 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | #1,982 | 100 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #1,814 | 112 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #2,078 | 92 | #4,251 | 23 |
| 2011 | #2,274 | 82 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #2,136 | 92 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #2,359 | 82 | #4,278 | 23 |
| 2008 | #1,966 | 107 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #2,602 | 69 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #2,589 | 64 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #2,497 | 65 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #2,512 | 61 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #2,708 | 54 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,935 | 45 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,556 | 50 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #2,412 | 53 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,127 | 63 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 63 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #1,894 | 74 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #1,543 | 99 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,277 | 123 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,392 | 101 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,179 | 124 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #1,065 | 141 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #1,074 | 136 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,091 | 127 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #823 | 186 | — | |
| 1982 | #858 | 180 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #1,559 | 76 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | — | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | — | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,701 | 14 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #2,537 | 13 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | #3,505 | 5 |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 | #2,322 | 10 |
| 1939 | #2,206 | 14 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 | #2,326 | 10 |
| 1937 | #1,784 | 19 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | #1,507 | 24 | #2,854 | 7 |
| 1935 | #1,779 | 19 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,603 | 22 | #3,679 | 5 |
| 1933 | #1,400 | 27 | #2,368 | 10 |
| 1932 | #2,130 | 15 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #1,502 | 25 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,289 | 34 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #1,244 | 36 | #2,589 | 10 |
| 1928 | #1,589 | 26 | #1,760 | 19 |
| 1927 | #1,362 | 35 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1926 | #1,166 | 43 | #1,981 | 16 |
| 1925 | #1,008 | 55 | #2,089 | 15 |
| 1924 | #1,017 | 57 | #2,473 | 12 |
| 1923 | #1,015 | 55 | #2,020 | 16 |
| 1922 | #1,124 | 46 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1921 | #905 | 67 | #1,766 | 20 |
| 1920 | #989 | 55 | #1,694 | 21 |
| 1919 | #828 | 72 | #1,752 | 19 |
| 1918 | #1,031 | 49 | #1,710 | 20 |
| 1917 | #784 | 78 | #1,643 | 20 |
| 1916 | #824 | 67 | #2,152 | 13 |
| 1915 | #944 | 49 | #1,553 | 20 |
| 1914 | #855 | 47 | #1,772 | 13 |
| 1913 | #881 | 36 | #1,945 | 9 |
| 1912 | #978 | 27 | — | |
| 1911 | #932 | 22 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,207 | 14 | #1,421 | 6 |
| 1909 | #1,104 | 14 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,044 | 15 | — | |
| 1907 | #945 | 16 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,416 | 8 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,420 | 8 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 | — | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | #1,133 | 10 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,136 | 9 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,932 | 5 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,278 | 7 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 | — | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | #1,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
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| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Afton! It came in at #1,426, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1896–1898, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Afton is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kansas#248 · 1 in 1,449
- Colorado#415 · 1 in 2,729
- Oklahoma#445 · 1 in 3,130
- Virginia#509 · 1 in 4,217
- Missouri#584 · 1 in 5,234
Best ever in a state: #11 in Utah, 1914.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | #248 | 10 | 1 in 1,449 |
| Colorado | #415 | 8 | 1 in 2,729 |
| Oklahoma | #445 | 6 | 1 in 3,130 |
| Virginia | #509 | 8 | 1 in 4,217 |
| Missouri | #584 | 6 | 1 in 5,234 |
| Ohio | #605 | 11 | 1 in 6,176 |
| Texas | #1,083 | 12 | 1 in 10,972 |
| California | #1,385 | 13 | 1 in 15,977 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Afton
- 122 spots since 2024 (#3,639 → #3,517)
- 1,402 spots since 2020 (#2,115 → #3,517)
- 1,478 spots since 2015 (#2,039 → #3,517)
- Biggest jump: 701 spots in 1982 (#1,559 → #858)
- Biggest drop: 268 spots in 1984 (#823 → #1,091)
- Debuted 1895
- Peaked 1917 at #784 (78 births)
- Births halved by 1927, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 1911–1917
- Highest: 1 in 8,982 girls born in 1983 were named Afton (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,378 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #784 in 1917, was only 1 in 13,862 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.1% of all girls named Afton (1,206) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1963, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 18 | #1,278 (1899) | #1,468 |
| 1900s | 91 | #945 (1907) | #1,310 |
| 1910s | 461 | #784 (1917) | #926 |
| 1920s | 475 | #905 (1921) | #1,142 |
| 1930s | 213 | #1,289 (1930) | #1,743 |
| 1940s | 95 | #2,297 (1940) | #3,364 |
| 1950s | 20 | #4,315 (1950) | #4,734 |
| 1960s | 29 | #5,456 (1969) | #6,252 |
| 1970s | 57 | #4,720 (1974) | #6,085 |
| 1980s | 1,206 | #823 (1983) | #1,586 |
| 1990s | 580 | #1,543 (1990) | #2,401 |
| 2000s | 719 | #1,966 (2008) | #2,453 |
| 2010s | 921 | #1,814 (2013) | #2,105 |
| 2020s | 338 | #2,115 (2020) | #3,042 |
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.
Afton in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 12,167 of them was named Afton, which outranked 91.7% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,057Elana142
- #1,057Kelsi142
- #1,057Markita142
- #1,065Afton141
- #1,065Alessandra141
- #1,065Alia141
- #1,065Chanelle141
- #1,072Ahsley140
- #1,072Cristin140
- #1,072Kiera140
Tied with 6 names at #1,065; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 368,303 of them was named Afton, which outranked 14.2% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,109 names at #6,721; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.