Auburn

#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 64.7% of the time

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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

girlsboys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201920peak #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
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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
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1951—#2,6629
1950—#2,7708
1949—#2,6069
1948——
1947—#3,0967
1946—#2,27111
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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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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 1920

No state had 5 or more girls named Auburn in 1920, 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)
  • 1,175 spots since 2015 (#3,177 → #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
all girlsall boys
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.

Auburn in 1920

girls
#4,975
5 births · 1 in 239,658 girls
boys
#1,747
20 births · 1 in 53,218 boys

Top girls' names in 1920

  1. #1Mary70,983
  2. #2Dorothy36,643
  3. #3Helen35,097
  4. #4Margaret27,994
  5. #5Ruth26,102
  6. #6Mildred18,060
  7. #7Virginia17,314
  8. #8Elizabeth15,908
  9. #9Frances15,883
  10. #10Anna14,581
  11. #4,975Auburn5

Top boys' names in 1920

  1. #1John56,913
  2. #2William50,146
  3. #3Robert48,679
  4. #4James47,908
  5. #5Charles28,309
  6. #6George26,891
  7. #7Joseph25,587
  8. #8Edward20,097
  9. #9Frank16,430
  10. #10Richard15,010
  11. #1,747Auburn20
More about 1920

girls

1,198,289 girls got a published name in 1920; 1 in 239,658 of them was named Auburn, which outranked 13.7% of the 5,767 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Auburn
  1. #4,398Zollie6
  2. #4,398Zonie6
  3. #4,398Zuma6
  4. #4,975Auburn5
  5. #4,975Acie5
  6. #4,975Addell5
  7. #4,975Adrine5

Tied with 792 names at #4,975; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. ↑ 550Denise#1,481 → #931
  2. ↑ 321Blossom#1,242 → #921
  3. ↑ 311Lilia#1,242 → #931
  4. ↑ 302Ena#1,270 → #968
  5. ↑ 277Lorayne#1,216 → #939
Fallers
  1. ↓ 594Haruko#917 → #1,511
  2. ↓ 511Roselle#1,000 → #1,511
  3. ↓ 345Toshiko#967 → #1,312
  4. ↓ 304Carroll#902 → #1,206
  5. ↓ 297Santina#835 → #1,132

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 53,218 of them was named Auburn, which outranked 65.0% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Auburn
  1. #1,694Woodford21
  2. #1,694Woody21
  3. #1,694Young21
  4. #1,747Auburn20
  5. #1,747Adelard20
  6. #1,747Akira20
  7. #1,747Alcide20
  8. #1,820Acy19
  9. #1,820Alexis19
  10. #1,820Arbie19

Tied with 72 names at #1,747; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. ↑ 960Harding#1,351 → #391
  2. ↑ 607Cameron#1,351 → #744
  3. ↑ 566Hardin#1,531 → #965
  4. ↑ 392Laurel#1,321 → #929
  5. ↑ 368Terrence#1,297 → #929
Fallers
  1. ↓ 789Pershing#593 → #1,382
  2. ↓ 580Woodroe#877 → #1,457
  3. ↓ 385Quinten#867 → #1,252
  4. ↓ 383Orvel#890 → #1,273
  5. ↓ 373Rexford#927 → #1,300

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1920 →