Austin
Austin is ranked 107th among boys in 2024 (3,290 births). Its best rank was 9th, in 1996–1997.
- Rank in 2024
- #107down 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,2900.19% of boys
- Peak year
- 199525,907 births
- Best rank
- #9first in 1996
- Since 1880
- 440,461people given the name
The story in the numbers
434,891 boys have been named Austin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 25,907 births — 1.4% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 66 → 107).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 44%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 36 of them in the top 100 and 4 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 5,570 girls have also been given it, 1.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Austin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 609 | |
| 1890s | 586 | |
| 1900s | 715 | |
| 1910s | 3,190 | |
| 1920s | 4,259 | |
| 1930s | 2,688 | |
| 1940s | 2,492 | |
| 1950s | 2,209 | |
| 1960s | 2,032 | |
| 1970s | 4,844 | |
| 1980s | 31,308 | |
| 1990s | 190,135 | |
| 2000s | 112,773 | |
| 2010s | 59,112 | |
| 2020s | 17,939 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Austin was the 10th 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 Austin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alecpeak 1995
- Kishanpeak 1997
- Austenpeak 1995
- Marquisepeak 1995
- Dakotapeak 1995
- Tylarpeak 1997
- Dakotahpeak 1994
- Dekotapeak 1995
Other spellings in the data
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.