Aspen Girl
How popular is Aspen?
#266 girl name in 2025
1,179 baby girls were named Aspen in the US in 2025, making it the 266th most popular girl name. Another 256 boys got the name (#920 for boys).
Aspen popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #266 for girls (▼ 1 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,179 girls, 256 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+34% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #372 in 2015, #224 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (1,518 girls) |
| Highest rank | #196 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1973 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 13% boys, 87% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Aspen counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Aspen family of names ranked #222 for girls in 2025 (#218 the year before), with 1,500 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Aspen | 1,179 | 79% |
| Aspyn | 309 | 21% |
| Aspynn | 12 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Aspen is most popular
Babies named Aspen per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Wyoming: 7.3 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Montana: 5.1 per 1,000 (69 girls)
- Idaho: 4.3 per 1,000 (144 girls)
- North Dakota: 4.0 per 1,000 (52 girls)
- Alaska: 3.6 per 1,000 (31 girls)
Aspen by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 135 | #2,582 |
| 1980s | 467 | #1,755 |
| 1990s | 2,735 | #535 |
| 2000s | 4,888 | #547 |
| 2010s | 8,393 | #252 |
| 2020s | 8,108 | #196 |
Girl names about as popular as Aspen
Questions
- Is Aspen a boy or girl name?
- Aspen is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 87% of babies named Aspen were girls.
- How popular is the name Aspen?
- 1,179 baby girls were named Aspen in the US in 2025, making it the 266th most popular girl name. Another 256 boys got the name (#920 for boys).
- When was Aspen most popular?
- Aspen peaked in 2022, when 1,518 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #196 in 2022.
- How many people are named Aspen?
- 27,736 babies have been named Aspen in the US since 1880. We estimate about 27,539 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Aspen most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Aspen was most common in Wyoming, at 7.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.