Autumn
Autumn was given to 2,805 girls in 2025, #88 among girls’ names; 146,326 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 144,000 Americans named Autumn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 11 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Autumn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Autumn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Autumn is “a female given name from English of modern usage, from autumn, the name of the season.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Autumn?
#88 among girls’ names, 2025
Autumn fell from #69 in 2015 to #88 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.3 to 1.7 per 1,000.
4,214 babies in 1998, the peak
Autumn peaked in 1998, when 4,214 babies were given it (4,208 girls, #77 among girls’ names). The 2,813 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,805 | #88 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 3,045 | #79 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 3,011 | #75 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 3,241 | #71 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 3,498 | #66 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 3,142 | #82 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 3,283 | #82 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 3,506 | #77 | 2.1 |
| 2017 | 3,611 | #75 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 4,045 | #65 | 2.3 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,124 | #69 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 4,082 | #71 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 3,968 | #64 | 2.3 |
| 2012 | 3,784 | #68 | 2.1 |
| 2011 | 3,769 | #69 | 2.1 |
| 2010 | 3,529 | #81 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 3,717 | #81 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 3,669 | #87 | 1.9 |
| 2007 | 3,719 | #90 | 1.9 |
| 2006 | 3,581 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 2005 | 3,603 | #90 | 1.9 |
| 2004 | 3,868 | #82 | 2.1 |
| 2003 | 4,059 | #75 | 2.2 |
| 2002 | 4,104 | #73 | 2.3 |
| 2001 | 4,191 | #72 | 2.3 |
| 2000 | 4,027 | #77 | 2.2 |
| 1999 | 4,128 | #77 | 2.3 |
| 1998 | 4,208 | #77 | 2.4 |
| 1997 | 3,740 | #91 | 2.1 |
| 1996 | 3,110 | #104 | 1.8 |
| 1995 | 2,980 | #110 | 1.7 |
| 1994 | 2,720 | #117 | 1.5 |
| 1993 | 2,086 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 1,783 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 1,748 | #171 | 0.93 |
| 1990 | 1,652 | #177 | 0.87 |
| 1989 | 1,482 | #188 | 0.80 |
| 1988 | 1,667 | #169 | 0.94 |
| 1987 | 1,441 | #193 | 0.83 |
| 1986 | 1,121 | #231 | 0.65 |
| 1985 | 1,222 | #210 | 0.71 |
| 1984 | 1,187 | #220 | 0.70 |
| 1983 | 1,254 | #205 | 0.75 |
| 1982 | 1,426 | #194 | 0.84 |
| 1981 | 1,496 | #184 | 0.90 |
| 1980 | 1,529 | #180 | 0.92 |
| 1979 | 1,498 | #180 | 0.93 |
| 1978 | 1,308 | #200 | 0.85 |
| 1977 | 1,092 | #228 | 0.71 |
| 1976 | 930 | #256 | 0.63 |
| 1975 | 840 | #286 | 0.58 |
| 1974 | 618 | #350 | 0.42 |
| 1973 | 318 | #529 | 0.22 |
| 1972 | 301 | #553 | 0.20 |
| 1971 | 251 | #648 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 199 | #740 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 154 | #832 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 97 | #1,076 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 98 | #1,039 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 99 | #1,050 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 96 | #1,070 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 90 | #1,163 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 96 | #1,115 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,126 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 92 | #1,144 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,417 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,448 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 78 | #1,192 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 78 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,024 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,701 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,010 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,147 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,259 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,696 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,712 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,511 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,765 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,043 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,833 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,955 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,469 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,061 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,145 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,898 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,479 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,009 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,992 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,861 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,335 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,568 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,334 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,665 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,444 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Autumn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Autumn has been given almost only to girls: 338 boys in 110 years of records.
Girls and boys named Autumn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Autumn, and how old are they?
144,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 146,326 Americans ever recorded as Autumn. The median Autumn alive today is 21 years old; half are between 11 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 110,887 people named Autumn (110,611 women and girls, 276 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 126,419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 44 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 726 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,970 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 27,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 61,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 45,200 |
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 Autumn born?
The states with the most babies named Autumn are California, Texas and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 275 | #107 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 274 | #104 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 155 | #109 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 132 | #54 | 1.2× |
| New York | 124 | #127 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 106 | #93 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 103 | #55 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 93 | #72 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 92 | #107 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 87 | #123 | 1.2× |
Where Autumn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Autumn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 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 Autumn 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 146,734 babies since 1880, Autumn is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,813 of their 2,827 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Autumn
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 Autumn and names like it
- Compare Autumn and AutymnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAutumn peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Autumn since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Autumn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Autumn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Autumn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.