Author
Recorded 1880–1995 · United States
Author was most popular in 1933, when 59 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,615 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,173 people named Author.
Author over time
How old is the name Author?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Author is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 97 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 1995.
How many people are named Author?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,173 American births named Author between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 650 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Author in 2025?
Author was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Author a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Author is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,173 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Author?
Roughly 650 Americans named Author are alive today — 30% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 73 years old, and half are between 63 and 81.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Author is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org