Austin
113,709 people in America carry this name — ranked #270 of 777.
A surname carried in front of the comma as often as behind it.
Say it AWS tuhn
2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part
Phonetic transcription
AO1 S T AH0 N — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.
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People counted 113,709 2020 Census
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Rank #270 Common
What Austin means and where it comes from
Latin in origin, reading literally as “venerable”.
Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.
A name and a surname
Austin is carried in front of the comma and behind it — thousands of Americans have it as a surname too.
Names about as common
The nearest entries above and below by number of people.
Who carries it today
- White alone (non-Hispanic) — 64.6%
- Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 25.5%
- Hispanic or Latino origin — 3.7%
- Two or more races — 4.7%
- Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.7%
Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.
The most common full names
- Michael Austin ≈ 1,200 people
- John Austin ≈ 1,100 people
- James Austin ≈ 1,000 people
- David Austin ≈ 1,000 people
- Robert Austin ≈ 900 people
- William Austin ≈ 800 people
- Mary Austin ≈ 600 people
- Maria Austin ≈ 600 people
The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.
The same name elsewhere
- Asta German
- Guste Lus.|Ger
- Gusta Lus.|Ger
- Gustel German
- Gussie English
- Agoston Hungarian
- Augustyn Polish
- Augustin Eng.|Ger
- Agostina Italian
- Agostino Italian
- Augustino Spanish
- Augustine French
- Augustina German
- Augusteen Ir
Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.
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Where this page gets its numbers
- Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
- Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
- Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.
Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
Other names of Latin origin