girls:
5.5k births since 1915
#2265 (60th percentile)
boys:
431.6k births since 1880
#76 (98th percentile)
overall:
437k births since 1880
#160 (98th percentile)
The name Austin is the #160 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 437,003 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #76 (98.4% percentile) for all time with 431,550 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,265 (60.4% percentile) for all time with 5,453 births since 1915.
Austin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls).
The name Austin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Austin reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 99.0% percentile (ranked #9) with 12,573 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 12,880 births per million (ranked 98.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Austin ranks #98 for boys (89.3% percentile) with 1,898 births per million, which is 14.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Austin reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 25.9% percentile (ranked #626) with 117 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 117 births per million (ranked 25.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Austin ranks #829 for girls (12.5% percentile) with 70 births per million, which is 60.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Austin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Austin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Austin is pronounced as AW-stihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-stuhn, at 31.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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 AO1 S T IH0 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.
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