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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Austen

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#2,518

down −560 places

2025 births

53

down −27 births

All-time births

8,125

1% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1995
540 births
Best rank
#420
in 1995
First recorded
1917
#4,030 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2000
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
57 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1995540#420Peak
  2. 1996531#423
  3. 1997489#449
  4. 1994403#502
  5. 1998384#532

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #420 in 1995 · peak births 540 in 1995

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 86% boys■ 14% girls

8,125 boys · 1,291 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 Austen has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.