Austin Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, Boy Names Like Austin

Austin Name Origin: English
Pronunciation: aw-st(in)
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Austin Name Meaning

A name pulled from Augustin, Austin has been a solid force towards the top of the charts since the 1980s. While his long-standing popularity has made him easily recognizable, he’s cooled enough to feel renewed in a field crowded with Liam and Noah.

He has a lot going for him when it comes to trends, fitting in both the place name bucket since he’s a city in Texas as well as the surname category that houses Jackson, Carter, and Lincoln. In his Austen form, he’s a literary pick, while Auston appears as another variation of the name. He’s part of the vowel name trend we’ve been seeing, where A names for boys are especially taking off.

A nice alternative to more popular names like Aaron and Aiden, Austin will fit in the classroom yet not be seen constantly in most schools. He’s got a healthy bit of boyhood charm about him but still commands respect well into adulthood. Another upside for many is his lack of nicknames, saving him from unwanted shortenings at every turn.

Austin has a likability factor about him, a name with good-guy vibes that can’t be shaken. Like Ryan, he’s a boy-next-door name who is well on his way to becoming a classic.

Austin Name Popularity

How popular is the name Austin? Here’s everything we know.

Year	Rank	# Births	% Births
1910	247	54	0.0153%
1911	297	43	0.0115%
1912	237	176	0.0349%
1913	229	227	0.04%
1914	242	278	0.0399%
1915	239	376	0.0414%
1916	237	409	0.0423%
1917	252	368	0.0368%
1918	242	448	0.0417%
1919	257	397	0.0379%
1920	254	430	0.0387%
1921	267	404	0.0353%
1922	265	417	0.0374%
1923	266	411	0.0367%
1924	279	383	0.033%
1925	273	404	0.0357%
1926	273	399	0.0363%
1927	276	382	0.0345%
1928	281	357	0.0334%
1929	290	328	0.0317%
1930	291	348	0.0333%
1931	297	317	0.0321%
1932	332	235	0.0238%
1933	313	254	0.0273%
1934	338	220	0.0228%
1935	375	171	0.0176%
1936	347	204	0.0212%
1937	348	200	0.0203%
1938	402	160	0.0156%
1939	410	155	0.0152%
1940	364	209	0.0197%
1941	391	182	0.0162%
1942	358	248	0.0196%
1943	355	254	0.0195%
1944	398	195	0.0157%
1945	386	199	0.0163%
1946	403	212	0.0144%
1947	433	206	0.0123%
1948	444	183	0.0115%
1949	534	117	0.0073%
1950	434	191	0.0119%
1951	419	219	0.0129%
1952	491	161	0.0092%
1953	492	161	0.0091%
1954	471	195	0.0107%
1955	503	170	0.0092%
1956	507	179	0.0095%
1957	499	194	0.0101%
1958	563	138	0.0073%
1959	580	135	0.0071%
1960	580	138	0.0073%
1961	553	159	0.0084%
1962	568	148	0.0081%
1963	552	164	0.0091%
1964	536	170	0.0097%
1965	548	149	0.0091%
1966	557	137	0.0088%
1967	532	154	0.0101%
1968	549	140	0.0093%
1969	588	129	0.0084%
1970	534	181	0.0114%
1971	505	217	0.0144%
1972	522	180	0.0132%
1973	494	206	0.0159%
1974	453	264	0.0203%
1975	380	376	0.0293%
1976	328	490	0.038%
1977	276	663	0.0492%
1978	233	871	0.0648%
1979	227	981	0.0696%
1980	210	1,153	0.0789%
1981	170	1,438	0.0978%
1982	155	1,790	0.1198%
1983	131	2,037	0.138%
1984	117	2,328	0.1565%
1985	107	2,721	0.1793%
1986	90	3,196	0.2117%
1987	76	4,083	0.2676%
1988	63	5,584	0.3583%
1989	59	6,883	0.4265%
1990	55	7,911	0.4773%
1991	50	9,054	0.5555%
1992	38	11,452	0.7175%
1993	26	17,579	1.1276%
1994	17	23,191	1.5111%
1995	10	25,905	1.7188%
1996	9	25,660	1.7137%
1997	9	25,117	1.6982%
1998	10	23,477	1.5686%
1999	13	20,767	1.3867%
2000	23	15,944	1.0437%
2001	25	14,955	0.9925%
2002	26	14,537	0.9701%
2003	33	11,687	0.7682%
2004	35	10,744	0.7049%
2005	38	10,107	0.661%
2006	41	10,286	0.6569%
2007	48	9,189	0.5824%
2008	55	7,984	0.5166%
2009	64	7,279	0.487%
2010	64	6,900	0.4788%
2011	60	7,026	0.4931%
2012	58	6,999	0.4912%
2013	64	6,484	0.4554%
2014	66	6,303	0.4326%
2015	69	5,796	0.3983%
2016	73	5,343	0.3706%
2017	75	5,024	0.36%
2018	81	4,642	0.3379%
2019	88	4,357	0.3219%
2020	88	3,927	0.3085%
2021	97	3,744	0.3063%
2022	109	3,339	0.2531%

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Names Like Austin

If you like Austin, you’ll love these other names like Austin.

What names are diminutives of Austin?

A diminutive is a name that’s like Austin sounds, you might also like these names that sound like Austin, but shorter.

Name	Meaning	Origin	Popularity	Other Gender
Auggie	Great, magnificient	Latin

What names are variants of Austin?

Mix it up with these names that are a variation of the name Austin.

Name	Meaning	Origin
August	To increase	Latin
Augustine	Great, magnificient	Latin
Augustus	Great, magnificient	Latin
Austen	Great, magnificient	Latin
Auston
Austyn	Great, magnificient	Latin
Osten		Latin
Ostin		French
Ostyn		French
Ostynn		French

What names sound like Austin?

If you like how Austin sounds, you might also like these names that sound like Austin.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Aston	East town; ash tree settlement	English
Auden	Old friend	English
Easton	East town	English

Jestin		Welsh
Justain	Just, upright, righteous	Latin
Justan	Just, upright, righteous	Latin
Justen	Just, upright, righteous	Latin
Justin	Just and fair	English
Justino	Just, upright, righteous	Latin
Justyn	Just, upright, righteous	Latin
Westin	Western town	English
Weston	West town	English

What names are similar to Austin?

Find a name that’s like Austin, but just a little bit different.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Brandon	Broom hill	English
Dylan	Great tide	Welsh
Eric	Everlasting ruler	Scandinavian
Evan	God is gracious	Welsh
Henry	Home ruler	English
Jason	To heal	Greek

Joshua	God is salvation	Hebrew
Michael	Who is Like God?	Hebrew
Ryan	Little king	Irish
Tyler	Tiler	English

Lists With Austin

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Siblings of Austin

Mamas with kids named Austin also have kids with these names.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Aiden	Little fire	Irish
Hudson	Son of Hudd	English
Harrison	Son of Harry	English
Elizabeth	God is my oath	Hebrew
Zoe	Life	Greek
Aubree	Elf ruler	English
Cameron	Crooked nose	Scottish
Emma	Whole or universal	German
River	Flowing body of water	English
Piper	Pipe player	English
Roman	One from Rome	Latin

Lucas	From Lucania	Latin
Jack	God is gracious	English
Abbott	Father, priest	English
Abigail	Father’s rejoice	Hebrew
Axton	From the ash town	English
Skyler	Fugitive; giving shelter	Danish

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17 Comments

CHRISTINA Jul 23 at 9:26 am

Austin means great, magnificent, and majestic! We believe the Lord is going to use him for great things to further His kingdom.

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Amanda Jan 14 at 9:02 am

The definition of the don’t give a f*** 2ed born and usually my best friend but now he’s 10 n not as nice to his mommy as he was

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Amy Oct 27 at 7:07 am

We have two other kids with A names and liked the sound of Austin with our last name.

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Abigail Feb 28 at 6:02 pm

Husband got choice pick for a boy name. Needless to say we both grew up watching wrestling and loved stone cold Steve Austin. The rest is history as they say.

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Brittany Feb 5 at 8:22 am

We chose Austin Miles because we love how it goes together. We don’t have any significant family names that we loved but we both could agree in Austin and then the middle name Miles just fell into place!

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- Jeremy Apr 30 at 11:27 am
  
  Just had our boy recently and came to look up spellings as we went with Miles Austin!!
  
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Jennifer Aug 31 at 9:00 am

Reason why I gave the name Austin to my first son because it was the state capital. Was originally going to be Dallas but I decided to go to Austin

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Angela Oct 8 at 12:21 pm

Austin is my maiden name. His dads first name is Ray so we decided to go with Austin Ray and as little bit of us both.

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Latasha Sep 8 at 11:21 am

The meaning

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Cara May 27 at 12:26 pm

My boyfriend loves wrestling and us big fan of Stone Cold Steve Austin. He has always liked the name Austin. He told me if we had a boy he would like him to be named Austin and I liked it too. The only thing I dislike is that you can’t shorten it so makes nicknames a little bit hard.

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- Faustine Kyaruzi Richard Jun 28 at 3:59 pm
  
  Ofcoz you can’t shorten this Name but all in all i like this. And my first boy is Austin. My friend call me Daddy Austin, i like it
  
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Mandy May 1 at 12:21 pm

We narrowed down to 5 boy names we both liked and agreed with. Then we chose the ones that went well with the middle names we had. His name came down to Austin Lee Michael or Jameson Lee when we finally had the reveal party. Then we let the older kids pick the one they liked most. They chose Austin since all the kids have 2 middle names.

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Kelsey Feb 14 at 12:36 pm

My husband picked out the name from a football player. It just stuck the whole time and I didn’t even think twice about it. I chose the middle name, Austin Joseph. He came 6 weeks early and spent only 4 short days in the nicu. He is now a happy healthy 7 year old with a little sister ?

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Jamie Aug 29 at 4:22 pm

After choosing the perfect name for our first boy, we couldn’t agree on a name for our second boy. Mama went through a list of potential names that she liked and DaDa told her that he liked Austin.

We love the name but it’s a pretty common name in the state where we live, RI, it was #35 at some point.

Our baby seems to like music. We often play the song Austin by Blake Shelton for him.

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Heather Aug 16 at 4:04 pm

My husband picked this name out this name for our son. I love the name Austin. You don’t hear the name Austin very much at all.

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Megan May 1 at 9:17 pm

Ive had the name Austin picked out for years and my husband liked it too. I never could figure out a middle name tho and he came up with it lol so we have Austin Riley now 🙂

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Lisa Apr 22 at 1:00 pm

Had another boy and wanted to stay with the letter A. Plus live the city of Austin, Texas.

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