Meaning not yet researched.
Austen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #420 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #420 in 1995; #2,518 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Austen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,518 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #420.
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Austen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 boys in 2025. Peak: #420 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 540 (1995).
In 2025, 53 US boys were named Austen, making it the 2,518th most common boys’ name of the year, down 560 places from #1,958 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 80 boys named Austen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #420, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 540. For comparison, it was #1,427 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Austen, making it the 3,469th most common girls’ name of the year, down 493 places from #2,976 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 55 girls named Austen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,118, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #2,850 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Austen in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 9,416 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,932 babies named Austen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 783 US boys were named Austen; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Austen ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,787 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Austin (443,723 babies since 1880), Austyn (10,101 babies since 1880), Auston (3,588 babies since 1880) and Aston (3,257 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Austen 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #1,787 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,469 | 53 | #2,518 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,976 | 80 | #1,958 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,101 | 60 | #2,319 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,930 | 70 | #2,119 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,488 | 77 | #1,945 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,185 | 72 | #1,979 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,453 | 108 | #1,549 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,059 | 80 | #1,874 |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,468 | 88 | #1,748 |
| 2016 | 92 | #2,118 | 95 | #1,664 |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,850 | 120 | #1,427 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,596 | 127 | #1,348 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,336 | 125 | #1,353 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,279 | 139 | #1,266 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,937 | 150 | #1,178 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,123 | 150 | #1,196 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,375 | 147 | #1,218 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,730 | 170 | #1,090 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,594 | 166 | #1,098 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,157 | 202 | #932 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,543 | 184 | #950 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,794 | 157 | #1,039 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,929 | 174 | #942 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,736 | 205 | #819 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,258 | 214 | #788 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,250 | 248 | #706 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,291 | 340 | #575 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,836 | 384 | #532 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,844 | 489 | #449 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,310 | 531 | #423 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,892 | 540 | #420 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,172 | 403 | #502 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,687 | 328 | #564 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,693 | 260 | #638 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,975 | 227 | #674 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,315 | 210 | #705 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,877 | 177 | #744 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,927 | 145 | #783 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,833 | 96 | #961 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,204 | 90 | #965 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,881 | 80 | #1,021 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,461 | 68 | #1,084 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,116 | 61 | #1,154 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,329 | 52 | #1,295 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,554 | 43 | #1,458 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,191 | 39 | #1,548 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,388 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,942 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,054 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,493 |
| 1975 | — | — | 11 | #3,266 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,177 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,022 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,412 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,250 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,853 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,030 |
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).