Auden
Auden is given to both girls and boys: 67 girls and 89 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,584 among girls’ names and #1,794 among boys’, #2,617 among all names counting both); 2,888 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Auden every year since 2024.
An estimated 2,860 Americans named Auden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Auden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Auden?
#1,794 among boys’ names, 2025
Auden fell from #1,719 in 2015 to #1,794 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 47.0 to 52.1 per million.
186 babies in 2020, the peak
Auden peaked in 2020, when 186 babies were given it (129 boys, #1,368 among boys’ names). The 156 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,584 | 89 | #1,794 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,512 | 85 | #1,881 |
| 2023 | 97 | #2,022 | 80 | #1,942 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,409 | 90 | #1,806 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,443 | 103 | #1,632 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,855 | 129 | #1,368 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,820 | 116 | #1,479 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,752 | 104 | #1,591 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,201 | 96 | #1,646 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,713 | 104 | #1,577 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,781 | 90 | #1,719 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,723 | 97 | #1,610 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,714 | 82 | #1,763 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,123 | 63 | #2,132 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,695 | 60 | #2,175 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,799 | 51 | #2,431 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,945 | 44 | #2,754 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,161 | 52 | #2,432 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,729 | 57 | #2,283 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,387 | 42 | #2,745 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,858 | 30 | #3,318 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,409 | 33 | #3,020 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,068 | 43 | #2,429 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,725 | 22 | #3,793 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 17 | #4,491 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,347 | 16 | #4,590 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 10 | #6,074 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 12 | #5,173 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 10 | #5,676 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,018 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 8 | #6,451 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 12 | #4,815 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 12 | #4,713 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #6,565 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #4,977 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #4,837 |
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 Auden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,888 Americans recorded as Auden, 35% are girls and 65% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Auden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Auden, and how old are they?
2,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,888 Americans ever recorded as Auden. The median Auden alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,052 people named Auden (628 women and girls, 1,424 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,929 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 46 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 783 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,020 |
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 Auden born?
The states with the most babies named Auden are Texas, Michigan and North Carolina, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,562 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 9 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,153 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,110 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,012 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Auden 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 543,007 babies since 1880, Auden is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 156 of their 8,742 babies (1.8%), the sixth 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 Auden
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 Auden and names like it
- Compare Auden and AidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAuden peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Auden since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Auden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Auden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.