Afton
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#3,519
up +121 places
2025 births
43
up +1 births
All-time births
5,223
1% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1983
- 186 births
- Best rank
- #784
- in 1917
- First recorded
- 1895
- #1,428 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1980
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 112 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1983186#823Peak
- 1982180#858
- 1986141#1,065
- 1985136#1,074
- 1984127#1,091
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #784 in 1917 · peak births 186 in 1983
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 14% boys■ 86% girls
854 boys · 5,223 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Afton has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.