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August
Pronounced /ˈɔ.ɡəst/
Rank in 2024
#88
Born in 2024
3,876
Peak year
2024 · #88
Origin
English, Latin
Also recorded for girls:290 in 2024 (#912)
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 3,876 boys were named August, about 1 in every 443.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 64,194 boys 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.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 1.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 10,368 babies, 0.62 per 1,000. Silent: 5,547 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,501 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,697 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,345 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,024 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 29,849 babies, 1.37 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.