Autum
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AW-tum
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Autum is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “autumn”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Autum mean?
English: spelling of Autumn
“autumn”
A spelling of Autumn, the season, whose name comes from Latin autumnus.
Is Autum a girl's or a boy's name?
Autum is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Autum in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 4 girls.
Autum in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 1 | #5,110 |
How popular is Autum in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 16% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Autum, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 1998, with 146 girls. It first appears in the records in 1971.
Half of all the girls named Autum in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,837 girls in the US were given Autum or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #117, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Autum in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,733 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,717 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,935 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,734 |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,533 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,562 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,395 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,122 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,015 |
| 2006 | 95 | #2,069 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,910 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,768 |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,000 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,467 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,383 |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,522 |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,281 |
| 1998 | 146 | #1,240 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,454 |
| 1996 | 111 | #1,476 |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,510 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,709 |
| 1993 | 91 | #1,650 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,151 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,812 |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,006 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,245 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,887 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,943 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,563 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,099 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,960 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,046 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,150 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,912 |
| 1980 | 46 | #2,189 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,661 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,741 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,216 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,060 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,680 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,426 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,421 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,617 |
Names like Autum
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Summer, Aaliyah, Ayla, Maya, Ayah, Zainab, Amira, Aisha, Amal, Safa, Amber, Hana
Other spellings of Autum
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Autum: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/autum, updated 20 October 2026.