Autry
Autry was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,219 among boys’ names; 1,461 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Autry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Autry?
#12,219 among boys’ names, 2025
Autry fell from #9,663 in 2015 to #12,219 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 2.9 per million.
68 babies in 1938, the peak
Autry peaked in 1938, when 68 babies were given it (57 boys, #818 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,219 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,600 | 14 | #6,221 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,312 | 11 | #7,327 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 10 | #7,812 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,692 | 14 | #6,054 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,664 | 11 | #7,075 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #12,327 | |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,678 | 7 | #9,769 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,798 | 9 | #8,213 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,577 | 7 | #9,763 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,518 | 7 | #9,663 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,877 | 5 | #12,274 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 8 | #8,866 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,206 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,540 | 6 | #10,933 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #12,410 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,498 | 5 | #12,661 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 10 | #7,743 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,047 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 9 | #8,048 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,730 | 9 | #7,088 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #10,499 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #8,795 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #7,623 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 9 | #6,127 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,020 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #7,872 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,489 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,241 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,270 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 8 | #5,000 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,372 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 7 | #5,184 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,396 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,631 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #3,878 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 7 | #4,974 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 9 | #4,098 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 9 | #3,878 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,176 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 8 | #3,972 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #3,998 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,422 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 10 | #3,084 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,177 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 17 | #1,907 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,799 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 15 | #2,093 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,304 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 12 | #2,425 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 13 | #2,288 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 17 | #1,997 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 16 | #2,046 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 18 | #1,915 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,156 | 8 | #3,046 |
| 1957 | under 5 | 17 | #1,955 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 17 | #1,949 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 14 | #2,150 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 12 | #2,323 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 14 | #2,103 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,608 | 15 | #2,013 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 12 | #2,257 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 12 | #2,216 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 15 | #1,947 | |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,693 | 18 | #1,762 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 16 | #1,917 | |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,458 | 21 | #1,557 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 30 | #1,207 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 21 | #1,483 | |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,711 | 25 | #1,399 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,666 | 31 | #1,246 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,857 | 44 | #960 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,405 | 44 | #967 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 50 | #868 | |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,594 | 57 | #818 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,832 | 35 | #1,096 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,703 | 24 | #1,358 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 17 | #1,711 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 18 | #1,662 | |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,779 | 9 | #2,552 |
| 1932 | under 5 | 9 | #2,653 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 9 | #2,667 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 10 | #2,619 | |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,101 | 5 | #4,001 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,963 | 7 | #3,377 |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,249 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,253 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 9 | #2,946 | |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,675 | 8 | #3,287 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,671 | 11 | #2,629 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 10 | #2,813 | |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,507 | 11 | #2,643 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,991 | 10 | #2,781 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,880 | 10 | #2,684 |
| 1918 | under 5 | 12 | #2,406 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,582 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 8 | #2,943 | |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,162 | 5 | #3,867 |
| 1913 | under 5 | 12 | #1,587 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Autry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,461 Americans recorded as Autry, 17% are girls and 83% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Autry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Autry, and how old are they?
An estimated 778 Americans named Autry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 15 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 765 people named Autry (195 women and girls, 570 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 817 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,695 babies since 1880, Autry is the most given (86% 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 Autry
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Wallis | 1,198 |
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 Autry and names like it
- Compare Autry and AutreyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sAutry peaked in 1938.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Autry since 1910.
- The top names of 1938The year the most babies were named Autry.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Autry alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.