Auden

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Auden, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Hollis
• Bellamy
• Ellis
• Caspian
• Caius
• Dorian
• Byron
• Cassian
• Bram
• Emerson
• Beckett
• Calder

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Auden is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Colombia, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Audén

• Norwegian given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden

  Also written Audén

• Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Audén

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Auden is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Wystan Hugh, English poet in US

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Asturian, third-person plural present indicative of audar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Croatian, jedan od najutjecajnijih angloameričkih pjesnika svoga vremena; društveno angažirana poezija snažnog modernog izraza

  as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Auden Groginsb. 1962USAmerican politician
• Auden Tateb. 1997USAmerican football player
• Auden SchendlerUSAmerican businessman, climate activist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Auden a male or female name?

Auden is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

How do you pronounce Auden?

A machine transcription gives /ˈɔdən/ (IPA) for English.

What does the name Auden mean, and where does it come from?

Different form of Alden. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

In which country does Auden have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Auden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled auden.

Where is Auden most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Auden is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Auden?

In the United States, the national register counted 2,052 people named Auden in 2020, about 1 in 162 thousand residents.