Autum
Autum was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,427 among girls’ names; 3,311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,250 Americans named Autum and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Autum by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Autum?
#8,427 among girls’ names, 2025
Autum fell from #4,307 in 2015 to #8,427 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 7.5 per million.
146 babies in 1998, the peak
Autum peaked in 1998, when 146 girls were given it, #1,243 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,427 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,639 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,966 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,017 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,432 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,030 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,191 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,806 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,892 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,749 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,307 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,725 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,940 | 32.5 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,740 | 36.3 |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,537 | 40.4 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,564 | 39.9 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,401 | 43.5 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,126 | 50.2 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,020 | 52.5 |
| 2006 | 95 | #2,069 | 50.0 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,911 | 54.7 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,769 | 58.8 |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,002 | 49.3 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,467 | 72.3 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,385 | 76.1 |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,523 | 65.5 |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,281 | 80.6 |
| 1998 | 146 | #1,243 | 82.6 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,455 | 64.9 |
| 1996 | 111 | #1,476 | 63.3 |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,510 | 58.6 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,710 | 48.2 |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,651 | 50.3 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,152 | 33.6 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,813 | 41.6 |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,008 | 35.3 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,246 | 28.7 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,888 | 36.5 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,945 | 33.4 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,571 | 22.2 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,103 | 29.1 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,965 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,049 | 29.3 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,150 | 27.8 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,915 | 33.6 |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,191 | 27.7 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,661 | 41.7 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,742 | 19.6 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,217 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,063 | 28.7 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,687 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,437 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,520 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,388 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,663 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Autum a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Autum has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Autum: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Autum, and how old are they?
3,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,311 Americans ever recorded as Autum. The median Autum alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 3,294 people named Autum (3,276 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,183 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 275 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 289 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Autum born?
The states with the most babies named Autum are Texas, California and Ohio, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 172 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 163 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 119 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 94 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 91 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 64 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 41 | not ranked | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Autum 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,515 babies since 1880, Autum is the most given (94% 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 Autum
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 Autum and names like it
- Compare Autum and AutummBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAutum peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Autum since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Autum.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Autum alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.