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How popular is “Austen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Austen” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Austen” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Austen” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Austen” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Austen” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Austen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Austen” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 -100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 -100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 -100%
1979 20 0.000006011 20 -100%
1980 45 0.000013064 6 39 -73%
1981 48 0.000013875 5 43 -79%
1982 58 0.000016534 6 52 -79%
1983 68 0.000019634 7 61 -79%
1984 76 0.000021784 8 68 -79%
1985 95 0.000026617 15 80 -68%
1986 101 0.000028394 11 90 -78%
1987 106 0.000029399 10 96 -81%
1988 158 0.00004276 13 145 -84%
1989 195 0.000050723 18 177 -82%
1990 227 0.000057432 17 210 -85%
1991 242 0.000062127 15 227 -88%
1992 289 0.000075235 29 260 -80%
1993 357 0.000094688 29 328 -84%
1994 439 0.000118085 36 403 -84%
1995 567 0.000154827 27 540 -90%
1996 549 0.000150527 18 531 -93%
1997 510 0.000140661 21 489 -92%
1998 401 0.000109021 17 384 -92%
1999 351 0.000095022 11 340 -94%
2000 258 0.000068256 10 248 -92%
2001 226 0.000060373 12 214 -89%
2002 221 0.000059118 16 205 -86%
2003 190 0.00004997 16 174 -83%
2004 169 0.00004423 12 157 -86%
2005 195 0.000050717 11 184 -89%
2006 223 0.000056367 21 202 -81%
2007 186 0.000046527 20 166 -78%
2008 178 0.000045285 8 170 -91%
2009 164 0.00004293 17 147 -79%
2010 177 0.000047893 27 150 -69%
2011 178 0.000048663 28 150 -69%
2012 165 0.000045114 26 139 -68%
2013 150 0.000041145 25 125 -67%
2014 170 0.000045867 43 127 -49%
2015 181 0.000048907 61 120 -33%
2016 187 0.000050972 92 95 -2%
2017 161 0.00004502 73 88 -9%
2018 133 0.000037828 53 80 -20%
2019 180 0.000051859 72 108 -20%
2020 121 0.000036221 49 72 -19%
2021 148 0.000043684 71 77 -4%
2022 126 0.000037244 57 69 -10%
2023 113 0.000034127 53 60 -6%
2024 133 0.000039958 55 78 -17%

Explore other names

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  1. Ausitn
  2. Auslynn
  3. Austa
  4. Austan
  5. Austeja
  6. Austen (this page)
  7. Austi
  8. Austie
  9. Austin
  10. Austina
  11. Austine