Austen
Austen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 78 births. Its best rank was 420th, in 1995.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 780.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1995540 births
- Best rank
- #420in 1995
- Since 1917
- 9,316people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,069 boys have been named Austen in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 540 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 46%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,247 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Austen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 18 | |
| 1950s | 5 | |
| 1960s | 5 | |
| 1970s | 68 | |
| 1980s | 851 | |
| 1990s | 3,712 | |
| 2000s | 1,867 | |
| 2010s | 1,182 | |
| 2020s | 356 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Austen was the 420th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1995 were Michael, Matthew, Christopher, Jacob and Joshua. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Austen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marquisepeak 1995
- Austinpeak 1995
- Dakotahpeak 1994
- Kishanpeak 1997
- Naquanpeak 1995
- Chazzpeak 1996
- Deontepeak 1995
- Marquelpeak 1995
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.