Auden
Auden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 84 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 840.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020128 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1975
- 2,730people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,796 boys have been named Auden in the United States since 1975, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 128 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 48%.
Auden is used for both sexes: 34% of its bearers are girls (934), most of them born around 2023.
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Auden was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Auden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maximilianopeak 2019
- Jessiahpeak 2020
- Thatcherpeak 2021
- Rayanpeak 2023
- Abdielpeak 2019
- Karsonpeak 2018
- Yaseenpeak 2024
- Phoenixpeak 2020
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.