Auburn
Auburn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 240.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201552 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1920
- 2,027people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,304 girls have been named Auburn in the United States since 1920, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 52 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 2006, and the 2010s alone account for 29%.
Auburn is used for both sexes: 36% of its bearers are boys (723), most of them born around 1925.
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Auburn was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Auburn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hananpeak 2016
- Mariellepeak 2016
- Tessapeak 2007
- Kalliepeak 2014
- Aislingpeak 2002
- Sanapeak 2022
- Anpeak 2010
- Elishevapeak 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.