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Auden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 89 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,368 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,368 in 2020; #1,794 in 2025. About 57% of babies named Auden in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,794 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,368.
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Auden: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 89 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,368 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 129 (2020).
In 2025, 89 US boys were named Auden, making it the 1,794th most common boys’ name of the year, up 87 places from #1,881 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 85 boys named Auden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,368, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 129. For comparison, it was #1,719 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 67 US girls were named Auden, making it the 2,584th most common girls’ name of the year, down 72 places from #2,512 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 71 girls named Auden in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,022, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #2,781 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Auden in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 2,888 US babies have been given the name, 35% of them girls and 65% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,300 babies named Auden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 996 US boys were named Auden; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,192 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Auden ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,012 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aiden (259,912 babies since 1880), Aidan (121,158 babies since 1880), Ayden (91,630 babies since 1880) and Adan (31,624 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Auden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,012 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,110 | #1,046 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,153 | #1,130 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,562 | #1,778 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,584 | 89 | #1,794 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,512 | 85 | #1,881 |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,022 | 80 | #1,942 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,409 | 90 | #1,806 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,444 | 103 | #1,632 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,855 | 129 | #1,368 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,820 | 116 | #1,479 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,753 | 104 | #1,591 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,201 | 96 | #1,646 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,713 | 104 | #1,577 |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,781 | 90 | #1,719 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,725 | 97 | #1,610 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,716 | 82 | #1,764 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,125 | 63 | #2,133 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,696 | 60 | #2,176 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,801 | 51 | #2,432 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,946 | 44 | #2,755 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,163 | 52 | #2,433 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,732 | 57 | #2,283 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,389 | 42 | #2,746 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,863 | 30 | #3,322 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,415 | 33 | #3,024 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,075 | 43 | #2,433 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,731 | 22 | #3,798 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,497 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,355 | 16 | #4,597 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,080 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,179 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,682 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,025 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,458 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #4,821 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,719 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,572 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #4,979 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,839 |
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).