Aspen
#266 for girls in 2025, 1,179 births · #920 for boys in 2025, 256 births
Given to girls 89.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 1,518 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 24,726since 1973
Aspen 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 | #266 | 1,179 | #920 | 256 |
| 2024 | #265 | 1,205 | #969 | 233 |
| 2023 | #215 | 1,394 | #1,034 | 211 |
| 2022 | #196 | 1,518 | #1,025 | 216 |
| 2021 | #200 | 1,502 | #1,060 | 202 |
| 2020 | #224 | 1,310 | #1,149 | 169 |
| 2019 | #252 | 1,285 | #1,193 | 160 |
| 2018 | #269 | 1,229 | #1,160 | 165 |
| 2017 | #329 | 999 | #1,402 | 125 |
| 2016 | #361 | 906 | #1,641 | 97 |
| 2015 | #372 | 879 | #1,740 | 88 |
| 2014 | #395 | 825 | #1,627 | 95 |
| 2013 | #488 | 618 | #2,090 | 64 |
| 2012 | #506 | 603 | #2,209 | 59 |
| 2011 | #520 | 561 | #2,261 | 57 |
| 2010 | #600 | 488 | #2,287 | 56 |
| 2009 | #590 | 511 | #2,348 | 55 |
| 2008 | #701 | 430 | #2,515 | 50 |
| 2007 | #608 | 494 | #2,504 | 50 |
| 2006 | #573 | 511 | #2,375 | 52 |
| 2005 | #547 | 525 | #2,467 | 46 |
| 2004 | #550 | 517 | #2,376 | 47 |
| 2003 | #562 | 494 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #557 | 483 | #2,603 | 37 |
| 2001 | #557 | 468 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | #570 | 455 | #2,196 | 45 |
| 1999 | #535 | 473 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #591 | 409 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #587 | 396 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #629 | 357 | #2,183 | 38 |
| 1995 | #662 | 322 | #1,758 | 50 |
| 1994 | #708 | 294 | #2,347 | 33 |
| 1993 | #989 | 187 | #2,162 | 36 |
| 1992 | #1,312 | 128 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #1,517 | 102 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #2,011 | 67 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #2,072 | 60 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,489 | 43 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,276 | 47 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,344 | 43 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,317 | 43 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,111 | 47 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,755 | 63 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,409 | 40 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,582 | 35 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,002 | 24 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
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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.
Where Aspen is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Wyoming#63 · 1 in 171
- Utah#67 · 1 in 291
- Idaho#78 · 1 in 285
- Colorado#108 · 1 in 461
- Montana#125 · 1 in 396
Best ever in a state: #13 in Wyoming, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | #63 | 7 | 1 in 171 |
| Utah | #67 | 57 | 1 in 291 |
| Idaho | #78 | 21 | 1 in 285 |
| Colorado | #108 | 50 | 1 in 461 |
| Montana | #125 | 7 | 1 in 396 |
| Kansas | #220 | 15 | 1 in 875 |
| Iowa | #222 | 14 | 1 in 982 |
| Arkansas | #278 | 9 | 1 in 1,309 |
| New Mexico | #282 | 7 | 1 in 1,158 |
| Oregon | #333 | 11 | 1 in 1,483 |
| Missouri | #335 | 16 | 1 in 1,829 |
| Oklahoma | #353 | 10 | 1 in 1,668 |
| Washington | #413 | 14 | 1 in 2,087 |
| Arizona | #418 | 15 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Tennessee | #420 | 12 | 1 in 2,552 |
| Indiana | #460 | 12 | 1 in 2,768 |
| Texas | #499 | 49 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Wisconsin | #603 | 6 | 1 in 4,206 |
| Maryland | #726 | 5 | 1 in 4,789 |
| Georgia | #746 | 9 | 1 in 5,081 |
| Michigan | #755 | 9 | 1 in 5,699 |
| Pennsylvania | #784 | 9 | 1 in 6,437 |
| Virginia | #896 | 5 | 1 in 6,871 |
| California | #1,036 | 27 | 1 in 8,113 |
| North Carolina | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 8,499 |
| Florida | #1,059 | 9 | 1 in 8,302 |
| Illinois | #1,086 | 8 | 1 in 8,729 |
| Ohio | #1,214 | 5 | 1 in 12,308 |
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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 Aspen
- 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)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2022 at #196 (1,518 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1993–2025
- 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%)
- 33.9% of all girls named Aspen (8,393) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 135 | #2,582 (1979) | #4,256 |
| 1980s | 467 | #1,755 (1982) | #2,295 |
| 1990s | 2,735 | #535 (1999) | #954 |
| 2000s | 4,888 | #547 (2005) | #582 |
| 2010s | 8,393 | #252 (2019) | #409 |
| 2020s | 8,108 | #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 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 3,750 of them was named Aspen, which outranked 96.8% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 49,235 of them was named Aspen, which outranked 80.2% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,263Stanton40
- #2,263Tyce40
- #2,263Tyric40
- #2,300Aspen39
- #2,300Adin39
- #2,300Alaric39
- #2,300Andrue39
- #2,347Abran38
- #2,347Ahmir38
- #2,347Alen38
Tied with 46 names at #2,300; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.