Auther vs Author

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Auther Author

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 109 years in which either name was published, Auther for 62 years and Author for 47 years. The lead changed hands 39 times.

• 1892–1894 Author ahead
• 1895–1903 Auther ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1908–1910 Author ahead
• 1914–1942 Auther ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1949–1969 Author ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1970–1974 Auther ahead
• 1975–1981 Author ahead
• 1986–1989 Auther ahead
• 1991–1995 Author ahead

25 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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.

Where each one is strongest

• Auther Alabama (11.2×), Mississippi (10.7×), Georgia (5.6×)
• Author Mississippi (10.0×), Alabama (8.9×), Georgia (7.0×)

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

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