Afton
Afton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 41 births. Its best rank was 784th, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 410.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1983186 births
- Best rank
- #784in 1917
- Since 1895
- 6,024people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,179 girls have been named Afton in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1983, with 186 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 23%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 845 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Afton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 18 | |
| 1900s | 91 | |
| 1910s | 461 | |
| 1920s | 475 | |
| 1930s | 213 | |
| 1940s | 95 | |
| 1950s | 20 | |
| 1960s | 29 | |
| 1970s | 57 | |
| 1980s | 1,206 | |
| 1990s | 580 | |
| 2000s | 719 | |
| 2010s | 921 | |
| 2020s | 294 |
In 1983, its biggest year
Afton was the 823rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1983 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 1983.
Names that rose and fell with Afton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jenevapeak 1926
- Kimikopeak 1981
- Stefaniapeak 2004
- Albapeak 2024
- Katherynepeak 1992
- Aileenpeak 2009
- Naomiepeak 2010
- Nidapeak 1995
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.