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Auston vs Austyn

American parents have registered 10,101 Austyns since 1880, against 3,588 Austons. Austyn is still ahead, with 214 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Auston against Austyn, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Auston Austyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 91 years in which either name was published, Auston for 56 years and Austyn for 35 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Auston Austyn
Total US births 3,58810,101
Most in one year 176402
Babies in 2025 19214
Estimated living today 3,20010,000
Median age today 2615
Peak year 19951996
Best rank 806th boys629th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045th2,390th
First recorded 19081982
Girls / boys 0 / 3,5884,928 / 5,173

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Austons alive today are over 26; half the Austyns are over 15. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Auston Austyn
England and Wales 3172

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Auston and Austyn.