Auburn — #5300 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Auburn

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,304 babies named Auburn between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Auburn currently holds the #5300 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 52 babies received it in a single year. Auburn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 723 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Auburn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 379 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Auburn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 91 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Auburn in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Auburn 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 1,304 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.