Austan — boys' name
197 babies named Austan in U.S. Social Security records since 1984, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
58% of everyone ever named Austan was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Austan in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Austan
The Social Security Administration has registered 197 babies named Austan between 1984 and 2020, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Austan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 24 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Austan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 115 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Austan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Austan 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 197 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.
Austan at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Austan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1984
- Peak year (1996)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
197 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 24 births in a single year.
Austan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 115 births that decade — 58% of Austan's all-time total
Austan decade highlights
- Peak decade 115 births
- Runner-up 60 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Austan's strongest decade
115 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1984–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.