Augusto

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Augusto

Say it: ow-GOOS-toh

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Meaning

From Latin augustus 'venerable'.

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Its wave through time

Popular now

In the United States

1,562 babies given this name since 1915
At its height in 2001, about 1 in 62,700 boys
22 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Central American Andean Brazilian Argentine

The family of the name

Portuguese	Augusto
Italian	Augusto

Famous bearers

Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary

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Where this comes from

Roman literature and history (Livy, Cicero, Tacitus and others)
National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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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.