girls:
22.3k births since 1973
#956 (83rd percentile)
boys:
2.5k births since 1990
#2518 (45th percentile)
overall:
24.8k births since 1973
#1613 (79th percentile)
The name Aspen is the #1,613 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,843 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 79.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #956 (83.3% percentile) for all time with 22,326 births since 1973. For boys, it ranks #2,518 (45.1% percentile) for all time with 2,517 births since 1990.
Aspen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for girls and 1990 for boys).
The name Aspen has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 86.9% of babies named Aspen were girls.
For girls, Aspen reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 80.1% percentile (ranked #191) with 846 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 846 births per million (ranked 80.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aspen ranks #206 for girls (78.3% percentile) with 793 births per million, which is 93.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Aspen reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 22.6% percentile (ranked #715) with 115 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 115 births per million (ranked 22.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Aspen is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #706 (22.5% percentile) with 115 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aspen".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Aspen.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Aspen", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Aspen.
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Aspen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Aspen is pronounced as A-spuhn, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Aspen? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Aspen. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Aspen, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 S P AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker