Austin
Austin stands at #113 nationally in 2025, past its crest and settling. Its record runs from 1880 through a 1995 peak, 438,042 children in all.
What Austin carries
Austin · Latin
“venerable”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Austin’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Austin, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Austin since 1880
Austin peaked in 1995 at #10; #113 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Austin is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Austin runs strongest in Vermont at 0.74% in 2025, then Delaware and District of Columbia.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Austin
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Adrian
#74 in 2025 · Latin
Julia
#131 in 2025 · Latin
Antonio
#176 in 2025 · Latin
Victor
#211 in 2025 · Latin
Gracie
#227 in 2025 · Latin
Justin
#233 in 2025 · Latin
Anthony
#46 in 2025 · Latin
Grace
#38 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with A · Latin names · all names
About Austin
How common is Austin today?
Austin stands at #113 nationally in 2025, past its crest and settling. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Austin?
The gloss on record reads “venerable”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Austin?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Adrian sits closest, with Julia and Antonio just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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