Austen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the male personal name Austin, via Old French from Latin Augustinus, literally ‘little Augustus’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔstɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Austen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 44K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
7,627 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the male personal name Austin, via Old French from Latin Augustinus, literally ‘little Augustus’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Austen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 7,627 | 1 in 44K | 6.7K | Austen | 68 |
| BR Brazil | 36 | 1 in 5.9M | 36 | Austen | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 96 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 9 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
7,627 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Austen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Diminutive of Augustin, from Latin Augustinus, “venerable”; used as a mixed given name.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, from OFr Aoustin, vernacular form of Augustine; first attested Austinus de Bernardeston 1224 FFSf
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In French, English surname used as a given name, from Augustine.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, Austinus de Bernardeston 1224 FFSf; Austinus de Beston’ 1230 P (Nf); Ostin atte Putte 1327 SRSo; Henry Austin, Edith Austines 1275 SRWo; Avice Augstyn (Austynes) 1327 SR (Ess). OFr Aoustin, the vernacular form of Augustine. v. AUGUSTIN.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, An English surname transferred from the given name; which is a variant of Austin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Austen Henry, Sir Layardb. 1817FRBritish politician (1817–1894)
- Austen Harrisonb. 1891GBBritish architect (1891-1976)
- Austen Campbellb. 1901GBEnglish footballer (1901–1981)
- Austen Albub. 1903GBBritish politician (1903-1994)
- Austen Karkb. 1926GBBritish broadcaster (1926–2002)
- Austen Robin Crappb. 1934AUAustralian bishop (1934–2024)
- William Youngb. 1952NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand judge (born 1952)
- Austen Tayshusb. 1954AUAustralian comedian
- Sky Blub. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper
- Austen Rydellb. 1992USAmerican actor and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.7K | #2,953 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 931 | #2,953 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 53 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 44 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 36 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #83,466 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 34 | #36,593 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 8 | #20,463 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 4 | #19,334 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Austen a male or female name?
- Austen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Austen mean, and where does it come from?
- from the male personal name Austin, via Old French from Latin Augustinus, literally ‘little Augustus’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Austen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔstɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Austen?
- In the etymology graph, Dino, Agustín and Augustin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Austen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Austen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled austen.
- Where is Austen most common?
- Austen is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Austen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,627 people named Austen in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/austenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Austen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.