Author
Author was last recorded in 1995, when 5 babies were given it; 2,173 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Author by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Author?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,979, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 1933, the peak
Author peaked in 1933, when 59 boys were given it, #799 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | #8,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,874 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,169 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,498 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,503 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,804 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,395 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,541 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,407 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 7 | #4,626 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,679 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,270 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,878 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #1,964 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,255 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #2,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,424 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #1,853 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,127 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,719 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,560 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,025 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 28 | #1,482 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 28 | #1,459 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,200 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,838 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,348 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,139 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,139 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 40 | #1,110 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,347 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,233 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,003 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,102 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,088 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 45 | #999 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 45 | #992 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,092 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 46 | #940 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 43 | #955 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,011 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 50 | #869 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 42 | #953 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 37 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 59 | #799 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 42 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,147 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 51 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 49 | #983 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 49 | #983 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,145 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 54 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,090 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,288 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,506 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,393 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 16 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 10 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,104 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 9 | #840 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 10 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 6 | #957 | 0.06 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,053 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 11 | #667 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 10 | #675 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 8 | #743 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 6 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 7 | #767 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 6 | #859 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 11 | #557 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 8 | #704 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 5 | #876 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 6 | #825 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Author a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Author has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Author: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Author, and how old are they?
An estimated 611 Americans named Author and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 62 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 729 people named Author (9 women and girls, 720 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 792 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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 Author born?
The states with the most babies named Author are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 57% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 158 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 152 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Alabama | 127 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Mississippi | 98 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 61 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 50 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 49 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 41 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Arkansas | 27 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Author is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Author is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 Author 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, Author is the third most given (32% 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 Author
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 Author and names like it
- Compare Author and AutherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sAuthor peaked in 1933.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Author since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Author.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Author alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.