Austen
11
Babies in 2024
-69%
10-year change
2014
Peak · 36
-8%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Austen
Austen has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 11 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 69% on a decade earlier.
Austen reached its peak in 2014, when 36 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #837 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 31% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 527 boys have been officially registered with the name Austen in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 202 boys were registered with the name, starting from 36 in 2014 and ending at 11 in 2024.