Auburn

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Peak · girls
1996 · 42 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,337
since 1920

Auburn over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank1900192019401960198020002020peak #2,849, 1996peak #994, 1890girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,35232#12,0085
2024#5,30024#10,9386
2023#4,45431—
2022#4,47231#8,9908
2021#4,71928#10,7996
2020#3,45044—
2019#4,90927#10,8036
2018#4,00136—
2017#3,55243#10,7756
2016#4,15735#10,7446
2015#3,17752#12,0865
2014#3,54944#10,7176
2013#3,70341#10,7286
2012#3,46446—
2011#4,56831—
2010#5,60224—
2009#4,80530—
2008#4,55033—
2007#4,94429#10,9216
2006#4,07336#10,6626
2005#5,80021—
2004#4,09334—
2003#5,09224—
2002#4,62126—
2001#4,56426#9,2436
2000#4,29128#10,3495
1999#3,89530—
1998#4,36625—
1997#2,87442—
1996#2,84942—
1995#3,42232—
1994#3,89227—
1993#3,98726#5,7719
1992#3,26734#6,6707
1991#4,80820#5,9428
1990#3,71428#6,4157
1989#5,28616#7,9055
1988#5,06516—
1987#3,98321—
1986#4,34718#6,7215
1985#5,67812—
1984#4,96614—
1983#5,14813—
1982#5,20913—
1981#4,96314#6,2625
1980#8,1787—
1979#5,09213—
1978——
1977#7,5677#5,1236
1976#8,1566#5,5875
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1970—#4,2306
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1968—#2,31113
1967—#2,7609
1966—#3,9485
1965——
1964—#3,6016
1963——
1962—#3,3057
1961—#3,0978
1960—#3,6656
1959—#2,66310
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1954—#2,44911
1953—#3,4256
1952——
1951—#2,6629
1950—#2,7708
1949—#2,6069
1948——
1947—#3,0967
1946—#2,27111
1945——
1944—#2,8627
1943—#1,83316
1942—#1,94614
1941—#3,1336
1940—#2,08112
1939—#2,4499
1938—#3,1756
1937—#1,62718
1936—#2,06212
1935—#2,5299
1934—#1,86015
1933—#2,09312
1932——
1931—#2,00314
1930—#1,55922
1929—#2,19913
1928—#2,38712
1927—#1,69221
1926—#2,30213
1925—#1,58323
1924—#2,22914
1923—#1,69621
1922—#1,69521
1921—#2,50212
1920#4,9755#1,74720
1919—#1,88217
1918—#2,07315
1917—#3,2177
1916—#2,38911
1915—#1,78216
1914—#1,77213
1913—#2,8215
1912—#1,22315
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1910—#1,5895
1909—#1,2776
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1890—#9945
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First appearance
1920

The first year at least five girls were named Auburn! It came in at #4,975, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1920–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Auburn is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Auburn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Auburn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 948 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #4,352)
  • 902 spots since 2020 (#3,450 → #4,352)
Rise & fade · girls
76 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1920
  • Peaked 1996 at #2,849 (42 births)
  • Births halved by 2005, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 34,329
  • Highest: 1 in 34,329 girls born in 2015 were named Auburn (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 50,227 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,849 in 1996, was only 1 in 41,738 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 28.3% of all girls named Auburn (379) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1976
  • Mostly boys until 1975, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s5#4,975 (1920)#4,975
1930s0——
1940s0——
1950s0——
1960s0——
1970s26#5,092 (1979)#6,938
1980s144#3,983 (1987)#5,282
1990s306#2,849 (1996)#3,707
2000s287#4,073 (2006)#4,683
2010s379#3,177 (2015)#4,068
2020s190#3,450 (2020)#4,458

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.

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