Austin
About 443,723 American babies have been named Austin since 1880, most of them around 1995. In 2025 it ranked 113th. About 419,000 Austins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Austin boys named Austin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 443,723
- Estimated living today
- 419,000
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 10th
- Rank in 2025
- 113th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5,681 / 438,042
How old the living Austins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 443,723 babies given the name since 1880, about 419,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 97,000 of them are children and 3,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old French
From Middle English Austin, from Anglo-Norman Aostin, Austin, similar to Old French Aostin, Austin, a popular variant of Old French Agustin, from Latin Augustīnus, from Augustus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Austins
- Austin Butler (born 1991)American actor
- Brian Austin Green (born 1973)American actor
- Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911)American illustrator and painter
- Austin Ejide (born 1984)Nigerian footballer
- Austin Nichols (born 1980)American actor and director
- Austin Abrams (born 1996)American actor
- Austin Aries (born 1978)American professional wrestler
- Austin Reaves (born 1998)American basketball player
People named Austin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Austin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Austin is most concentrated in Nevada (2.0×), Utah (1.9×), Idaho (1.7×), Oregon (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1995
The most popular boys’ names the year Austin peaked:
Austin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Austin | 12,242 | 85th |
| Ireland boys | Austin | 1,156 | 116th |
| New Zealand boys | Austin | 1,113 | 41st |
| Scotland boys | Austin | 1,089 | 108th |
| France boys | Austin | 450 | 773rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Austin | 315 | 118th |
| Belgium boys | Austin | 123 | 610th |
| Switzerland boys | Austin | 63 | 867th |
| Poland boys | Austin | 20 birth registrations | 432nd |
| England and Wales girls | Austin | 11 | 4,535th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Austin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Austin | 30 | 0.002% | 960th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Austin | 31 | 0.007% | 383rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Austin | 2 | 0.003% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Austin: rank by region
In 2025, Austin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Austin | 914 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Austin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Austin | 34 | 49 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Austin lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 195 men called Austin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zaragoza | Austin | 11 | 0.022 | 2,142 |
| Gipuzkoa | Austin | 6 | 0.017 | 2,225 |
| Toledo | Austin | 6 | 0.016 | 2,349 |
| Balears, Illes | Austin | 10 | 0.016 | 3,165 |
| Asturias | Austin | 6 | 0.012 | 2,807 |
| Bizkaia | Austin | 6 | 0.011 | 3,044 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Austin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.