Austen

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Austen: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Austen: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #629, and it stood at #727 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#629highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2019–2021

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#5591
2021	#5581

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #2088 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #784 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #629 among boys in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2088 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Austen appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 527 births with the name.

Austen across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Austen's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#784 (1996)	#629 (1997)	#2088 (2024)	29 of 29	527 (1996–2024)	36 (2014)
England and Wales · Girls	#5591 (2019)	#5581 (2021)	#5581 (2021)	2 of 3	6 (2019–2021)	3 (2019)

Austen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Austen in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	79	4 of 10	20
2000s	143	10 of 10	14
2010sbusiest	249	10 of 10	25
2020s	56	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 25 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Austen appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #629 in England and Wales in 1997.

Austen's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1906	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1158	23	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1546	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1081	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#873	35	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#837	36	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#882	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#962	30	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1099	23	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1156	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1169	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1280	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1379	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#973	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#813	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#629	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#784	19	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #629, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 36 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ausra · #315, 27y
Austeja · #298, 20y
Austin · #37, 62y
Austyn · #1630, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Eleni · #627, 29y
Malek · #631, 26y
Aniela · #635, 26y
Theadora · #623, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abdurahman · #629, 29y
Abid · #629, 29y
Brandyn · #629, 11y
Christabel · #629, 29y

Austen was ranked #629 in England and Wales · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Austen and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Austen without appearing here.

Austen moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1906 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #5119.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2529 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1906 and #4107.
Grant Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2104 and #1869 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1548 and #3334.
Keith Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2104 and #1869 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1548 and #3334.

Moved ahead of Austen

Marius Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1158 and #1194 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2104 and #731.
Aksel Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1158 and #1382 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2104 and #1253.
Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1519 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1771 and #1092.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1379 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1519 and #848.

Moved the opposite way to Austen

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Austen went from #784 to #2088 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Austen went from #784 to #2088 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Austen went from #784 to #2088 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Austen went from #784 to #2088 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Austen

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Austen went from #784 to #2088 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Austen went from #784 to #2088 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Austen went from #784 to #2088 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Austen went from #784 to #2088 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #629 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Austen

Austen at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Austen across 2 official records

Austen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Austen appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Austen at a glance

Austen across 2 official records

Austen by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Austen appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Austen

Austen and the names beside it

Austen moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Austen

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