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Augusta
Say it: aw-GUS-tuh
Meaning
Feminine of Augustus 'venerable, majestic'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A title of Roman empresses that German royal houses used as a given name, spreading it to Georgian Britain and 19th-century America.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 18,061 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1890, about 1 in 637 girls
- 45 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Rome750 BC to AD 476
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
| German | Auguste |
|---|---|
| Italian | Augusta |
| Spanish | Augusta |
| French | Augusta |
Famous bearers
- Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales, mother of George III
- Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
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Where this comes from
- Roman literature and history (Livy, Cicero, Tacitus and others)
- Royal and noble genealogies
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.