Author vs Authur
American parents have registered 2,192 Authurs since 1880, against 2,173 Authors. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Author Authur
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 114 years in which either name was published, Authur for 63 years and Author for 51 years. The lead changed hands 34 times.
- 1882–1944 Author ahead, apart from 6 short spells
- 1950–1990 Authur ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1991–1993 Author ahead
- 1994–2006 Authur ahead
23 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Author | Authur | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,173 | 2,192 |
| Most in one year | 59 | 56 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 640 | 900 |
| Median age today | 72 | 67 |
| Peak year | 1933 | 1951 |
| Best rank | 799th boys | 934th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 2,173 | 0 / 2,192 |
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 Authors alive today are over 72; half the Authurs are over 67. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Author Mississippi (10.0×), Alabama (8.9×), Georgia (7.0×)
- Authur Mississippi (9.9×), Alabama (8.9×), Georgia (8.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Author and Authur.