Austin
Feminine · “venerable”
Austin is given to boys far more often — 438,042 boys against 5,681 girls since 1880. See Austin as a boy name
Austin is Augustine worn down by English speech — venerable, in Latin — and the Texan capital is named for a colonist whose surname it already was.
How old is the name Austin?
Austin first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Austin alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 5,600 people named Austin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Austin most popular?
Austin peaked in 1994, reaching #860 nationally. Today it ranks #1808, 948 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
From augustus to Austin
The story of Austin
Austin was the ordinary medieval English form of Augustine and became a surname. Stephen F. Austin led the first Anglo-American colony in Mexican Texas, and the capital was named for him in 1839. The given name rose for boys from the 1980s and for girls in smaller numbers; feminine Austin appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
venerable, consecrated
From the Latin augustus, 'venerable' or 'consecrated', through Augustinus. Medieval English wore the four syllables down to two: Austin friars are Augustinians. The Latin is ordinary and the reading undisputed. The shortening is a documented English sound change.
How the name formed
- augustus
- Augustinus
- Austin
Related forms: Augustine · Augustin · Austen
Pronouncing Austin
AW-stin
Two syllables, stress on the first. Austin and Austen are said identically.
Nicknames for Austin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 1994228 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #860reached in 1994
- Change vs 2024
- −5.1%111 in 2025, from 117
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Austin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Augustine in English — related form
- Augustin in French — related form
- Austen in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, North Carolina.
Austins among us
people named Austin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,480 born in 2025 was named Austin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Austin
- #1808
- Austin on the 2025 chart
- #693
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Austin went to 111 girls in 2025, but Austyn and Austynn are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 273, which makes it the 693rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,115 places above the chart.
- Austyn157
- Austin111
- Austynn5
About 1 girl in 5,887 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 14,480 for Austin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Linette test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Austin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Linette climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Linette's path sketches the road Austin is walking now.
Austin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Austin is headed
Austin should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Austin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Austin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The venerable meaning is transparent and the medieval shortening is well documented.
- One of the most consequential writers in Western thought stands behind the parent name.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It reads as masculine to nearly everyone in America.
- The Texas capital is a very strong association.
- Austen is the spelling of the novelist's surname and is easily confused.
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Feminine · #1808 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Austins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,600 people named Austin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Austin?
- Austin is one of 3 recorded spellings. Austyn is the more common one — 157 births in 2025 against 111 for Austin.
- How popular is the name Austin in 2025?
- Austin ranks #1808 among US girl names in 2025, with 111 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Austin?
- About 1 in every 14,480 US girls born in 2025 was named Austin — 111 in all.
- Will my child share the name Austin with classmates?
- Austin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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