Auden — #1896 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Auden

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,796 babies named Auden between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Auden currently holds the #1896 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 128 babies received it in a single year. Auden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 934 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Auden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 863 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Auden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 253 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Auden in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Auden 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 1,796 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.