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August
Pronounced /ˈɔ.ɡəst/
Rank in 2024
#912
Born in 2024
290
Peak year
2021 · #843
Origin
English, Latin
Also recorded for boys:3,876 in 2024 (#88)
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 290 girls were named August, about 1 in every 5,563.
- It peaked in 2021 with 328 babies, ranked #843.
- It first shows up in the records in 1914.
- 5,998 girls have been named August since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named August per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 60 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 15 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 39 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 383 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 629 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,613 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,259 babies, 0.16 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Late Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos (“increase”), from Proto-Italic *augos, from Proto-Indo-European base *h₂ewg- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails + garrīre (“to chatter”). Doublet of august and Augustus.
- (now rare) A female given name from English derived from the month (of birth).
- A male given name from Latin.
- Origin
- English, Latin
- Say it
- /ˈɔ.ɡəst/
From Wiktionary’s entry for August, CC BY-SA 4.0.