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
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 42 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,337since 1920
Auburn 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 | #4,352 | 32 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,472 | 31 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #4,719 | 28 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #4,001 | 36 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #3,177 | 52 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #3,549 | 44 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,093 | 34 | — | |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,621 | 26 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #3,267 | 34 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | #2,311 | 13 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,606 | 9 | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,271 | 11 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,833 | 16 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,946 | 14 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,081 | 12 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,449 | 9 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,627 | 18 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,062 | 12 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,860 | 15 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,093 | 12 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #2,003 | 14 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,559 | 22 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,199 | 13 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,387 | 12 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,692 | 21 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,302 | 13 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,583 | 23 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,229 | 14 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,696 | 21 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,695 | 21 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | #1,747 | 20 |
| 1919 | — | #1,882 | 17 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,073 | 15 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,389 | 11 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,782 | 16 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,772 | 13 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,223 | 15 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | #994 | 5 | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
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
- 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)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 1996 at #2,849 (42 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 28.3% of all girls named Auburn (379) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1975, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,975 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 26 | #5,092 (1979) | #6,938 |
| 1980s | 144 | #3,983 (1987) | #5,282 |
| 1990s | 306 | #2,849 (1996) | #3,707 |
| 2000s | 287 | #4,073 (2006) | #4,683 |
| 2010s | 379 | #3,177 (2015) | #4,068 |
| 2020s | 190 | #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
Top girls' names in 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
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).
Tied with 792 names at #4,975; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
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).
- #1,694Woodford21
- #1,694Woody21
- #1,694Young21
- #1,747Auburn20
- #1,747Adelard20
- #1,747Akira20
- #1,747Alcide20
- #1,820Acy19
- #1,820Alexis19
- #1,820Arbie19
Tied with 72 names at #1,747; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.