Astin
Astin was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,238 among boys’ names; 609 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Astin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Astin?
#7,238 among boys’ names, 2025
Astin rose from #7,538 in 2015 to #7,238 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 6.4 per million.
31 babies in 1988, the peak
Astin peaked in 1988, when 31 babies were given it (16 boys, #3,209 among boys’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 11 | #7,238 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 8 | #9,060 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 11 | #7,322 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 6 | #10,982 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #9,805 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,263 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 18 | #5,117 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #9,777 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,564 | 8 | #8,904 |
| 2015 | under 5 | 10 | #7,538 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 12 | #6,663 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 27 | #3,762 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 19 | #4,871 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 24 | #4,116 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,641 | 11 | #7,113 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 19 | #4,932 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 14 | #6,093 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 10 | #7,635 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 13 | #6,123 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 11 | #6,674 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 14 | #5,516 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 12 | #5,900 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 8 | #7,579 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,351 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,615 | 7 | #7,616 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,204 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,737 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,631 | 8 | #6,448 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,670 | 11 | #5,125 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,652 | 12 | #4,712 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,476 | 17 | #3,610 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,637 | 10 | #5,118 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,315 | 11 | #4,679 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,964 | 10 | #4,832 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,341 | 16 | #3,209 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,824 | 12 | #3,739 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,171 | 17 | #2,897 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,698 | 9 | #4,353 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,566 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,172 | 7 | #4,956 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,946 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,840 | 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 Astin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 609 Americans recorded as Astin, 26% are girls and 74% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Astin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Astin, and how old are they?
An estimated 595 Americans named Astin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 594 people named Astin (180 women and girls, 414 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 470,945 babies since 1880, Astin is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 3,648 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Astin
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 Astin and names like it
- Compare Astin and AustinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAstin peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Astin since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Astin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Astin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.