# August (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/august/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “month of august”, “venerable”, “increase”, “to increase”, “bird”, “to chatter” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɔ.ɡəst/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Aug, Aguste, Augost |
| US babies named this | 74,452 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 68,182 / 6,270 (8% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,014, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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.

## What it means

August is grouped under bird.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 119 | 1,729 |
| 2012 | 131 | 1,639 |
| 2013 | 129 | 1,647 |
| 2014 | 232 | 1,102 |
| 2015 | 249 | 1,058 |
| 2016 | 228 | 1,114 |
| 2017 | 259 | 1,002 |
| 2018 | 300 | 897 |
| 2019 | 319 | 845 |
| 2020 | 316 | 856 |
| 2021 | 328 | 841 |
| 2022 | 321 | 865 |
| 2023 | 291 | 913 |
| 2024 | 291 | 912 |
| 2025 | 268 | 962 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 720 | 395 |
| 2012 | 946 | 333 |
| 2013 | 1,043 | 319 |
| 2014 | 1,545 | 241 |
| 2015 | 2,093 | 195 |
| 2016 | 2,092 | 193 |
| 2017 | 2,061 | 191 |
| 2018 | 2,291 | 169 |
| 2019 | 2,389 | 167 |
| 2020 | 2,432 | 155 |
| 2021 | 3,160 | 120 |
| 2022 | 3,420 | 109 |
| 2023 | 3,459 | 104 |
| 2024 | 3,894 | 88 |
| 2025 | 3,958 | 81 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | 2,411 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,925 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,901 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 12 | 2,163 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,767 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,705 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,719 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,216 |
| 2014 | 23 | 1,144 |
| 2015 | 22 | 1,186 |
| 2016 | 26 | 1,081 |
| 2017 | 36 | 861 |
| 2018 | 36 | 851 |
| 2019 | 44 | 740 |
| 2020 | 62 | 579 |
| 2021 | 89 | 461 |
| 2022 | 97 | 423 |
| 2023 | 95 | 415 |
| 2024 | 140 | 317 |
| 2025 | 145 | 310 |

## People named August

- August Kekulé, German organic chemist (1829–1896)
- August Krogh, Danish physiologist (1874–1949)
- August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
- August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (1834-1914)
- August von Mackensen, German field marshal (1849–1945)
- August von Kotzebue, German dramatist and writer (1761–1819)
- August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress (1994-2017)
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (1818–1892)
- Clemens August von Galen, German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to 
- August Horch, German automobile engineer (1868–1951)
- August Diehl, German actor
- August Kopff, German astronomer (1882-1960)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.