Astoria
Astoria was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,216 among girls’ names; 727 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Astoria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Astoria?
#2,216 among girls’ names, 2025
Astoria rose from #7,315 in 2015 to #2,216 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 51.6 per million.
98 babies in 2024, the peak
Astoria peaked in 2024, when 98 girls were given it, #1,998 among girls’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,216 | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 98 | #1,998 | 60.5 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,561 | 43.0 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,604 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,684 | 25.0 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,783 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,340 | 28.0 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,404 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,066 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,437 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,315 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,102 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,084 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,174 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,476 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,371 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,553 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,586 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,690 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,532 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,404 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,517 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,349 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,702 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,342 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,865 | 5.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,739 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,939 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,661 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,113 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,395 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Astoria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Astoria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Astoria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Astoria, and how old are they?
An estimated 722 Americans named Astoria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 373 people named Astoria (371 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 362 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 2,123 babies since 1880, Astoria is the second most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 223 babies (37%), the most given that year.
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 Astoria
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 Astoria and names like it
- Compare Astoria and AstraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAstoria peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Astoria since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Astoria.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Astoria alive today were born 2013-2025.
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