August
Boy nameAugust has been given to 74,452 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It peaked in 2025 and currently ranks #962 for girls and #81 for boys (2025).
Meaning & origin /ˈɔː.ɡəst/
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.
Origin: English
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Popularity over time births per year, 1880–2025
Total babies
74,452
Peak year
2025 (4,226 babies)
Rank in 2025
#962 for girls · #81 for boys
First recorded
1880
10-year trend
▲ +80%
Gender split
8% girls / 92% boys
Famous people named August
Ernst Haeckel
German zoologist (1834-1919)
August Macke
German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (1887–1914)
August Krogh
Danish physiologist (1874–1949)
Augustus II the Strong
King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony (1670–1733)
Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names with a similar vibe
Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as August.
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