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Astor

#5,051 in 2025Boys' name

Hawk

Astor has been given to 445 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #5,051 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Astor, 2025

1 in 174,000

Astor over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Astor: meaning, origin, and history

Hawk

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Astor means

Astor means “hawk”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 435 boys were recorded with the name Astor between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,177 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,660 in 2020 to #5,051 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,240 in 2015 to #5,051 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Astor between 2017 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2017; its best national rank was #15,979 in 2018.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Astor?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,051
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Astor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Astor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Astors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Astor was born before 1940 — so the typical Astor is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
182
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1910s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Astor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,060
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,609
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,189
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.4%
Peak was 2024 (27)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,177
1912

Spellings of Astor

Astor is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 28.0% against Astor's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Astor is used

Across 1910–2025, Astor was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 792,503 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Astor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Astor around the world

Where Astor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2010–2025
    #5,111
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Astor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,609
Best rank ever
#1,177
1912
Peak year
2024
27 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
435
Count in 2025
19

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,979
2018
Peak year
2017
5 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Astor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Astor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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