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Afton

Afton: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“from the river Afton”
Origin
English
Say it
AF-tən · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls (86% of all uses)

Transferred from the Scottish river name Afton, familiar from Robert Burns's 'Sweet Afton'. As a given name it is modern and place-name based.

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How popular is Afton?

202416.5 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Afton in 202455

2024 rank#3,689 girls

Peak year1983

Total US babies since 18806,024

Afton has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Afton

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

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Afton questions

What does the name Afton mean?

Afton means "from the river Afton". It comes from English. Transferred from the Scottish river name Afton, familiar from Robert Burns's 'Sweet Afton'. As a given name it is modern and place-name based.

Is Afton a boy or girl name?

Afton is mainly a girl's name in US records (86% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Afton?

55 US babies were named Afton in 2024. Its peak year was 1983.

How do you pronounce Afton?

Afton is usually pronounced AF-tən.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.