Austen
#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births · #2,516 for boys in 2025, 53 births
Given to boys 86.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 540 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,125since 1917
Austen 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 | #3,459 | 44 | #2,516 | 53 |
| 2024 | #2,976 | 55 | #1,957 | 80 |
| 2023 | #3,091 | 53 | #2,315 | 60 |
| 2022 | #2,928 | 57 | #2,117 | 70 |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 | #1,943 | 77 |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 | #1,548 | 108 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #1,872 | 80 |
| 2017 | #2,464 | 73 | #1,746 | 88 |
| 2016 | #2,117 | 92 | #1,663 | 95 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | #1,427 | 120 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #1,348 | 127 |
| 2013 | #5,317 | 25 | #1,352 | 125 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 | #1,266 | 139 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | #1,178 | 150 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 | #1,195 | 150 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #1,218 | 147 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #1,090 | 170 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #1,098 | 166 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | #932 | 202 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #950 | 184 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #1,039 | 157 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | #942 | 174 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #819 | 205 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #788 | 214 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #705 | 248 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #575 | 340 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #532 | 384 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #449 | 489 |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | #423 | 531 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #420 | 540 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 | #502 | 403 |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | #564 | 328 |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 | #638 | 260 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #674 | 227 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | #704 | 210 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #744 | 177 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #783 | 145 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #961 | 96 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #965 | 90 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | #1,020 | 80 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #1,084 | 68 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #1,153 | 61 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #1,293 | 52 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #1,456 | 43 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #1,547 | 39 |
| 1979 | — | #2,379 | 20 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,246 | 11 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Austen! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Austen is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- North Carolina#1,265 · 1 in 10,207
- California#1,514 · 1 in 17,216
- Texas#1,706 · 1 in 19,014
Best ever in a state: #136 in North Dakota, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #1,265 | 5 | 1 in 10,207 |
| California | #1,514 | 11 | 1 in 17,216 |
| Texas | #1,706 | 9 | 1 in 19,014 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Austen
- 559 spots since 2024 (#1,957 → #2,516)
- 539 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #2,516)
- 1,089 spots since 2015 (#1,427 → #2,516)
- Biggest jump: 178 spots in 1988 (#961 → #783)
- Biggest drop: 166 spots in 2007 (#932 → #1,098)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1995 at #420 (540 births)
- Births halved by 2000, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1986–2003
- Highest: 1 in 3,525 boys born in 1995 were named Austen (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,228 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.7% of all boys named Austen (3,712) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 18 | #3,385 (1926) | #3,801 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 68 | #2,379 (1979) | #3,012 |
| 1980s | 851 | #744 (1989) | #1,101 |
| 1990s | 3,712 | #420 (1995) | #548 |
| 2000s | 1,867 | #705 (2000) | #958 |
| 2010s | 1,182 | #1,178 (2011) | #1,460 |
| 2020s | 412 | #1,943 (2021) | #2,138 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Austen in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 23,111 of them was named Austen, which outranked 85.9% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,460Sabina72
- #2,460Seven72
- #2,460Sunshine72
- #2,484Austen71
- #2,484Aarohi71
- #2,484Abbigail71
- #2,484Aislyn71
- #2,510Acelynn70
- #2,510Alea70
- #2,510Anaiya70
Tied with 25 names at #2,484; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 22,721 of them was named Austen, which outranked 86.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,931Om78
- #1,931Yariel78
- #1,931Zohan78
- #1,943Austen77
- #1,943Amen77
- #1,943Armon77
- #1,943Floyd77
- #1,964Antony76
- #1,964Bruin76
- #1,964Cross76
Tied with 20 names at #1,943; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.