Austen — #1983 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Austen

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,069 babies named Austen between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Austen currently holds the #1983 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 540 babies received it in a single year. Austen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,247 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Austen performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 3,712 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Austen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 847 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Austen in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Austen 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 8,069 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.