Gender-neutral · #2516 in 2025
Austen
Austen: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #2516
- Born 2025
- 53
- Peak year
- 1995
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
Austen has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 11% of its 1995 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 44% of children named Austen were recorded as girls and 56% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.