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Austen (English), Austyn (English), Awstin (Welsh), Osten (English), and Ostin (English) are variants of Austin. Austin is a German variant of the name Augustine (English). Austin is a very popular baby name for boys. The name's popularity jumped from the 1950s up to the 1990s. At the peak of its usage in 1995, 1.289% of baby boys were given the name Austin. Its ranking then was #10. The baby name has since declined in popularity. In 2007, its usage was 0.417% and its ranking #48, but it was nonetheless the most popular out of all boy names in its group. The name Austin has been predominantly given to boys, though it has also been used as a girl name in the past century. In 1994, boys named Austin outnumbered girls by 97 times. Baby names that sound like Austin include Austen (English), Austyn (English), Ashton (English), Awstin (Welsh), Eistein (Scandinavian), Ostin (English), Agoston (Hungarian), Agustin (Spanish), Agustín (Spanish), Augustin (Czech, English, French, German, and Romanian), Augustine (English), Augustín (Czech and Slavic), Augustyn (Polish), Ágoston (Hungarian), Agostinho (Portuguese), Agostino (Italian), Augustijn (Dutch), and Ághaistín (Irish). KEY: Pronunciation for Austin: AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" A famous person named Austin is Fictional Secret Agent, Austin Powers, born 1997.
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