Austen

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Primarily a boy's name · Unisex — 13% girls / 87% boys

Meaning

Austen is a masculine given name deriving from the Latin Augustine or August.

From Wikipedia

Austen first appears in the data in 1917 and has been recorded in 56 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1995 with 540 babies (rank #420 that year). In 2024 it was given to 78 boys (rank #1,982). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Austen

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Austen yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

9,316
Total babies (all years)
56
Years in the data
540
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19175#4,030
19236#3,853
19255#4,250
19267#3,412
19575#4,024
19685#4,177
197511#3,265
197610#3,493
197713#3,054
197814#2,942
197920#2,388
198039#1,548
198143#1,458
198252#1,295
198361#1,154
198468#1,084
198580#1,022
198690#965
198796#961
1988145#783
1989177#744
1990210#705
1991227#674
1992260#638
1993328#564
1994403#502
1995540#420
1996531#423
1997489#449
1998384#532
1999340#575
2000248#706
2001214#788
2002205#819
2003174#942
2004157#1,039
2005184#950
2006202#932
2007166#1,098
2008170#1,090
2009147#1,218
2010150#1,196
2011150#1,178
2012139#1,265
2013125#1,353
2014127#1,348
2015120#1,427
201695#1,664
201788#1,748
201880#1,874
2019108#1,549
202072#1,979
202177#1,944
202269#2,136
202360#2,316
202478#1,982