girls:
140.1k births since 1910
#283 (95th percentile)
boys:
322 births since 1974
#4264 (7th percentile)
overall:
140.4k births since 1910
#531 (93rd percentile)
The name Autumn is the #531 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 140,394 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 93.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #283 (95.1% percentile) for all time with 140,072 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #4,264 (7.0% percentile) for all time with 322 births since 1974.
Autumn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Autumn is available in 108 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (108 years for girls and 42 years for boys). 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 Autumn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Autumn reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 93.4% percentile (ranked #64) with 2,089 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 2,171 births per million (ranked 91.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Autumn ranks #73 for girls (92.4% percentile) with 1,716 births per million, which is 79.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Autumn reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #824) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Autumn ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 33.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Autumn".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Autumn is pronounced as AW-tuhm, which has 2 syllables.
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