Autumn
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Meaning
autumn season
The story
Autumn is the season turned directly into a name. The English word ultimately comes from Latin autumnus, but parents began using Autumn widely only in the 1960s. It belongs to a modern group of nature names that need no secret translation: its images are falling leaves, harvest light, cooling air, and the turn toward winter. The US curve shows a gradual adoption rather than one sudden craze. Autumn gathers strength late in the twentieth century, reaches its highest band in the 2000s, and remains strong through the 2010s and 2020s. That staying power separates it from a brief novelty. It is seasonal without being tied to a child's birth month, and familiar without becoming an old traditional given name. Autumn's story is unusually transparent: an ancient word for part of the year, chosen as a personal name by modern English-speaking families.
How popular is Autumn around the world?
In the United States, 18,790 babies were named Autumn between 2020 and 2025.
Autumn is on the official records of the United States, Scotland, England and Wales, Canada, New Zealand, South Australia, Ireland and Austria.
United States
1 in 1,200
In the United States, 18,790 babies were named Autumn between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Autumn peaked in the 2000s. Autumn went to 4,124 US babies in 2015 and 2,813 in 2025, 68% of the earlier figure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Scotland
1 in 1,200
In Scotland, 39 girls named Autumn were registered in 2024, the 113th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
England and Wales
1 in 1,300
In England and Wales, 434 girls named Autumn were born in 2025, the 107th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Canada
1 in 1,800
In Canada, 201 girls named Autumn were born in 2024, the 133rd most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
New Zealand
1 in 1,900
In New Zealand, 30 girls named Autumn were registered in 2025.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time
South Australia
1 in 3,1002017
In South Australia, 6 girls were registered as Autumn in 2017.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Ireland
1 in 18,000
In Ireland, 3 girls named Autumn were born in 2025, the 885th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Austria
1 in 76,000
In Austria, 1 girl named Autumn was born in 2025, ranked 1,875th among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Poland
last on record 2015
Autumn is not on the 2025 record for Poland, where names given fewer than 2 times in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina and Puerto Rico: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Autumn
Most people given the name Autumn in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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