Aspen
Aspen is given to both girls and boys: 1,179 girls and 256 boys were given it in 2025 (#266 among girls’ names and #920 among boys’, #469 among all names counting both); 27,736 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 27,500 Americans named Aspen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aspen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aspen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aspen is “a female given name from English of modern usage, denominated for the aspen tree.”
Named for its aspen trees.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aspen?
#266 among girls’ names, 2025
Aspen rose from #372 in 2015 to #266 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.49 to 0.73 per 1,000.
1,734 babies in 2022, the peak
Aspen peaked in 2022, when 1,734 babies were given it (1,518 girls, #196 among girls’ names). The 1,435 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,179 | #266 | 256 | #920 |
| 2024 | 1,205 | #265 | 233 | #970 |
| 2023 | 1,394 | #215 | 211 | #1,034 |
| 2022 | 1,518 | #196 | 216 | #1,025 |
| 2021 | 1,502 | #200 | 202 | #1,060 |
| 2020 | 1,310 | #224 | 169 | #1,149 |
| 2019 | 1,285 | #252 | 160 | #1,193 |
| 2018 | 1,229 | #269 | 165 | #1,160 |
| 2017 | 999 | #329 | 125 | #1,402 |
| 2016 | 906 | #361 | 97 | #1,642 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 879 | #372 | 88 | #1,742 |
| 2014 | 825 | #395 | 95 | #1,627 |
| 2013 | 618 | #488 | 64 | #2,089 |
| 2012 | 603 | #507 | 59 | #2,210 |
| 2011 | 561 | #520 | 57 | #2,263 |
| 2010 | 488 | #600 | 56 | #2,286 |
| 2009 | 511 | #590 | 55 | #2,348 |
| 2008 | 430 | #701 | 50 | #2,518 |
| 2007 | 494 | #608 | 50 | #2,507 |
| 2006 | 511 | #574 | 52 | #2,375 |
| 2005 | 525 | #547 | 46 | #2,466 |
| 2004 | 517 | #550 | 47 | #2,374 |
| 2003 | 494 | #562 | 35 | #2,784 |
| 2002 | 483 | #557 | 37 | #2,601 |
| 2001 | 468 | #557 | 35 | #2,679 |
| 2000 | 455 | #570 | 45 | #2,195 |
| 1999 | 473 | #535 | 39 | #2,301 |
| 1998 | 409 | #591 | 36 | #2,394 |
| 1997 | 396 | #587 | 44 | #2,024 |
| 1996 | 357 | #629 | 38 | #2,182 |
| 1995 | 322 | #662 | 50 | #1,754 |
| 1994 | 294 | #707 | 33 | #2,346 |
| 1993 | 187 | #987 | 36 | #2,160 |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,310 | 9 | #5,677 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,515 | 12 | #4,497 |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,007 | 8 | #5,866 |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,069 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,489 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,276 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,344 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,318 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,114 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,858 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,756 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,411 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,327 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,585 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,646 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,181 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,008 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,643 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,758 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,127 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Aspen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 27,736 Americans recorded as Aspen, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aspen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aspen, and how old are they?
27,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 27,736 Americans ever recorded as Aspen. The median Aspen alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 16,836 people named Aspen (15,238 women and girls, 1,598 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,549 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 152 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aspen born?
The states with the most babies named Aspen are Texas, California and Florida, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 131 | #337 | 0.8× |
| California | 82 | #532 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 59 | #428 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 59 | #155 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 54 | #294 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 52 | #126 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | #277 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 49 | #253 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 46 | #333 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 40 | #138 | 3.7× |
Where Aspen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aspen is most over-represented in Wyoming: since 1973 it was given 5.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aspen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 32,178 babies since 1880, Aspen is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,435 of their 1,773 babies (81%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aspen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aspen and names like it
- Compare Aspen and AspynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAspen peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aspen since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Aspen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Aspen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aspen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.