Autum
#8,427 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Autum has been given to 3,311 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #8,427 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 146 recorded.
Babies named Autum, 2025
1 in 276,000
Autum over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Autum?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 134,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,427
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Autum sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Autum. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Autums were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Autum was born before 1999 — so the typical Autum is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 31.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,311
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (1,056).
Is Autum 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
- +1,212
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +603
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,120
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.36×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.2%
- Peak was 1998 (146)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.7% average annual change
Spellings of Autum
Autum is not the most common spelling — Autumn is, with 80.0% against Autum's 1.8%.
Where Autum is used
Across 1910–2025, Autum was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 108,515 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Autum has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Autum around the world
Where Autum 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 & Wales2003–2022#4,646in 2022
- Canada1995–2005#2,024in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Autum by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Autum
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Autum
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Autum, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Autum
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.