Meaning not yet researched.
Afton: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #784 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #784 in 1917; #3,519 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Afton in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,519 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #784.
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Afton: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #784 in 1917 · most girls in one year: 186 (1983).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Afton, making it the 3,519th most common girls’ name of the year, up 121 places from #3,640 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 42 girls named Afton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #784, reached in 1917. The most girls given the name in a single year was 186, in 1983. For comparison, it was #2,040 in 2015 and #4,321 in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Afton, making it the 8,265th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,058 places from #6,207 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 14 boys named Afton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,422, reached in 1910. The most boys given the name in a single year was 23, in 2012. For comparison, it was #9,600 in 2015 and #3,690 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Afton in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 6 babies. In all, 6,077 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,236 babies named Afton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 685 US girls were named Afton; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Aftyn, Aftan and Aften are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aftyn (242), Aftan (109), Aften (102), Aftin (61), Aphton (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Afton in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,519 | 9 | #8,265 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,640 | 14 | #6,207 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,275 | 13 | #6,530 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,033 | 7 | #9,854 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,674 | 11 | #7,108 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,115 | 14 | #5,988 |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,128 | 19 | #4,959 |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,113 | 12 | #6,712 |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,238 | 13 | #6,345 |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,248 | 16 | #5,557 |
| 2015 | 96 | #2,040 | 7 | #9,600 |
| 2014 | 100 | #1,982 | 17 | #5,256 |
| 2013 | 112 | #1,814 | 19 | #4,807 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,079 | 23 | #4,254 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,274 | 15 | #5,679 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,136 | 21 | #4,521 |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,359 | 23 | #4,283 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,966 | 23 | #4,269 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,509 | 21 | #4,497 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,603 | 15 | #5,529 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,181 | 16 | #5,039 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,589 | 15 | #5,248 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,497 | 18 | #4,430 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,605 | 11 | #6,096 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,512 | 10 | #6,455 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,708 | — | — |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,935 | 11 | #5,660 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,556 | 5 | #9,290 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,849 | 10 | #5,537 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,588 | 6 | #7,813 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,128 | 7 | #6,676 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,896 | 9 | #5,529 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1989 | 123 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1988 | 101 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1987 | 124 | #1,179 | 6 | #6,097 |
| 1986 | 141 | #1,065 | 5 | #6,737 |
| 1985 | 136 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1984 | 127 | #1,091 | 7 | #4,984 |
| 1983 | 186 | #823 | — | — |
| 1982 | 180 | #858 | 6 | #5,634 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,559 | 6 | #5,481 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,548 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,702 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,963 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,572 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,906 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,725 | 6 | #4,642 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,669 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,462 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,810 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,545 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,774 | — | — |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,039 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,701 | — | — |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #3,950 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,743 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,150 | — | — |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,740 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,321 | 5 | #3,690 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,249 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,665 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,027 | 6 | #2,996 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,946 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,496 | 6 | #3,235 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,537 | 6 | #3,218 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,030 | 5 | #3,507 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,298 | 10 | #2,323 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,206 | 7 | #2,833 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,226 | 10 | #2,327 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,784 | 6 | #3,178 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,507 | 7 | #2,857 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,603 | 5 | #3,685 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,400 | 10 | #2,369 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,130 | 5 | #3,781 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,289 | 6 | #3,598 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,244 | 10 | #2,589 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,589 | 19 | #1,761 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,362 | 14 | #2,196 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,166 | 16 | #1,982 |
| 1925 | 55 | #1,008 | 15 | #2,092 |
| 1924 | 57 | #1,017 | 12 | #2,474 |
| 1923 | 55 | #1,015 | 16 | #2,023 |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,124 | 16 | #2,041 |
| 1921 | 67 | #907 | 20 | #1,767 |
| 1920 | 55 | #989 | 21 | #1,694 |
| 1919 | 72 | #829 | 19 | #1,752 |
| 1918 | 49 | #1,032 | 20 | #1,712 |
| 1917 | 78 | #784 | 20 | #1,645 |
| 1916 | 67 | #824 | 13 | #2,153 |
| 1915 | 49 | #944 | 20 | #1,553 |
| 1914 | 47 | #855 | 13 | #1,775 |
| 1913 | 36 | #882 | 9 | #1,946 |
| 1912 | 27 | #979 | — | — |
| 1911 | 22 | #932 | — | — |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,207 | 6 | #1,422 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1907 | 16 | #946 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,428 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).