Entry № 1081 · English origin

Autumn Autumn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AW-tum /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The autumn season (top-100 US baby name; Autumn de Forest, prodigy painter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "the autumn season (top-100 us baby name; autumn de forest, prodigy painter)".

Autumn is from the Latin autumnus — the season of harvest and the turning of leaves. (2005-2007), Entourage (2007-2009), countless Hallmark Channel films. Autumn appears across modern literature including Lauren DeStefano's Wither trilogy and Ali Smith's Autumn (2016) — the first novel of her Seasonal Quartet, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

The autumn season.

The name in its native script.

Autumn
Transliteration
Autumn
Pronunciation
/ ˈɔː.təm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Autumn stands.

Autumn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Autumns before her.

Real people
Autumn de Forest
American child prodigy painter.
born 2004
Autumn Phillips
Former British royal.
born 1978
Autumn Reeser
American actress.
born 1980
In fiction
Autumn
Ali Smith's Autumn.
2016

Names connected to Autumn.

The number behind Autumn.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Autumn reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.