Auther
Auther was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 2,366 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Auther by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Auther?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,994, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1925, the peak
Auther peaked in 1925, when 71 babies were given it (66 boys, #815 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #7,994 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,150 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,971 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,159 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,996 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 11 | #2,985 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,083 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,330 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,922 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #2,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,870 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,119 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,880 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,422 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,595 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,436 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 26 | #1,533 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,793 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,709 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,510 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #1,705 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,297 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,291 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 23 | #1,545 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,062 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,214 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,095 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,163 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,021 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,020 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 51 | #928 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,006 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 49 | #906 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 43 | #954 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 53 | #852 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 52 | #846 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,030 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 46 | #930 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 55 | #846 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 45 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 58 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 60 | #843 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 59 | #859 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 59 | #864 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 54 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 68 | #793 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 66 | #815 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,005 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 58 | #896 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 48 | #1,024 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 45 | #1,045 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 54 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 48 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1918 | 50 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 48 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 31 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,178 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 13 | #931 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 11 | #983 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,228 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,004 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 14 | #644 | 0.11 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 7 | #937 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 6 | #956 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 11 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,059 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 7 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,112 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 6 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 10 | #604 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 7 | #797 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 10 | #653 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 10 | #611 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 7 | #774 | 0.06 |
| 1883 | 8 | #683 | 0.08 |
| 1882 | 6 | #848 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 7 | #712 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 6 | #824 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Auther a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Auther has been given almost only to boys: 17 girls in 94 years of records.
Girls and boys named Auther: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Auther, and how old are they?
An estimated 554 Americans named Auther and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 64 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 513 people named Auther (16 women and girls, 497 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 749 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Auther born?
The states with the most babies named Auther are Alabama, Georgia and Texas, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 194 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Georgia | 147 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 141 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 128 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| North Carolina | 70 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 65 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 60 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 59 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Arkansas | 40 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Auther is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Auther is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Auther 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,795 babies since 1880, Auther is the most given (35% of them).
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 Auther
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 Auther and names like it
- Compare Auther and AuthurBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAuther peaked in 1925.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Auther since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Auther.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Auther alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.