Afton — #3689 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Afton

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,179 babies named Afton between 1895 and 2024, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Afton currently holds the #3689 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 186 babies received it in a single year. Afton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 845 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Afton performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,206 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Afton shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 1,192 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Idaho. In total, SSA state-level files list Afton in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Afton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,179 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.