girls:
1.2k births since 1980
#4527 (21st percentile)
boys:
8k births since 1917
#1319 (71st percentile)
overall:
9.2k births since 1917
#2811 (64th percentile)
The name Austen is the #2,811 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,181 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 63.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,319 (71.2% percentile) for all time with 7,990 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #4,527 (20.8% percentile) for all time with 1,191 births since 1980.
Austen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Austen is available in 55 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 44 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Austen has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 53.1% of babies named Austen were boys.
For boys, Austen reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 50.6% percentile (ranked #396) with 268 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 268 births per million (ranked 50.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Austen ranks #856 for boys (6.0% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 12.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Austen reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 9.1% percentile (ranked #870) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 48 births per million (ranked 9.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Austen ranks #899 for girls (5.1% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 63.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Austen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Austen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.3% confident that Austen is pronounced as AW-stuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-stihn, at 26.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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