Primarily a boy's name · 91% boys
Origin: GermanAugust is both a given name and surname developed from the Latin, Augustus. Derived from the Latin word augere, meaning "to increase", Augustus had the meaning "esteemed" or "venerable" and was a title given to Roman emperors.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of August yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
1880 — the dataset's opening year — is also when August's rank hit its best mark, #74, putting it alongside Samuel, John, Thomas, William, and Charles as names that peaked positionally right at the start. What's stranger: the count record came separately, 144 years later in 2024, at 3,876 births — the name's best year ever, and it still ranks lower today, #88, than it did in 1880.
That record count rides on 151% growth over the past decade — a big jump, though still short of this batch's very top risers, Theo and Walker.
Economist Friedrich Hayek, chemist Svante Arrhenius, and biologist Ernst Haeckel form an unusually academic cluster of 19th- and 20th-century European scholars.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 210 | #74 |
| 1881 | 172 | #81 |
| 1882 | 234 | #74 |
| 1883 | 209 | #77 |
| 1884 | 213 | #80 |
| 1885 | 193 | #86 |
| 1886 | 203 | #84 |
| 1887 | 194 | #83 |
| 1888 | 213 | #86 |
| 1889 | 171 | #96 |
| 1890 | 206 | #84 |
| 1891 | 186 | #86 |
| 1892 | 181 | #102 |
| 1893 | 155 | #111 |
| 1894 | 162 | #109 |
| 1895 | 190 | #101 |
| 1896 | 180 | #103 |
| 1897 | 137 | #120 |
| 1898 | 164 | #112 |
| 1899 | 142 | #117 |
| 1900 | 148 | #144 |
| 1901 | 116 | #141 |
| 1902 | 108 | #162 |
| 1903 | 116 | #154 |
| 1904 | 127 | #151 |
| 1905 | 109 | #175 |
| 1906 | 120 | #164 |
| 1907 | 134 | #163 |
| 1908 | 138 | #168 |
| 1909 | 129 | #179 |
| 1910 | 144 | #188 |
| 1911 | 166 | #188 |
| 1912 | 343 | #171 |
| 1913 | 401 | #171 |
| 1914 | 533 | #166 |
| 1915 | 709 | #162 |
| 1916 | 676 | #178 |
| 1917 | 661 | #184 |
| 1918 | 618 | #207 |
| 1919 | 618 | #203 |
| 1920 | 610 | #211 |
| 1921 | 610 | #217 |
| 1922 | 596 | #225 |
| 1923 | 544 | #240 |
| 1924 | 574 | #239 |
| 1925 | 514 | #252 |
| 1926 | 458 | #267 |
| 1927 | 496 | #256 |
| 1928 | 421 | #276 |
| 1929 | 455 | #263 |
| 1930 | 431 | #271 |
| 1931 | 423 | #265 |
| 1932 | 365 | #286 |
| 1933 | 337 | #289 |
| 1934 | 295 | #316 |
| 1935 | 270 | #332 |
| 1936 | 288 | #316 |
| 1937 | 300 | #307 |
| 1938 | 249 | #352 |
| 1939 | 249 | #353 |
| 1940 | 258 | #354 |
| 1941 | 237 | #376 |
| 1942 | 280 | #362 |
| 1943 | 249 | #388 |
| 1944 | 239 | #392 |
| 1945 | 201 | #420 |
| 1946 | 230 | #420 |
| 1947 | 250 | #431 |
| 1948 | 241 | #429 |
| 1949 | 249 | #430 |
| 1950 | 203 | #469 |
| 1951 | 202 | #476 |
| 1952 | 193 | #503 |
| 1953 | 216 | #476 |
| 1954 | 190 | #530 |
| 1955 | 151 | #600 |
| 1956 | 186 | #556 |
| 1957 | 181 | #574 |
| 1958 | 155 | #618 |
| 1959 | 164 | #604 |
| 1960 | 148 | #640 |
| 1961 | 161 | #625 |
| 1962 | 122 | #694 |
| 1963 | 133 | #678 |
| 1964 | 126 | #686 |
| 1965 | 110 | #713 |
| 1966 | 105 | #727 |
| 1967 | 119 | #682 |
| 1968 | 99 | #746 |
| 1969 | 111 | #742 |
| 1970 | 110 | #783 |
| 1971 | 118 | #756 |
| 1972 | 99 | #804 |
| 1973 | 92 | #829 |
| 1974 | 110 | #769 |
| 1975 | 104 | #814 |
| 1976 | 106 | #809 |
| 1977 | 107 | #822 |
| 1978 | 95 | #880 |
| 1979 | 104 | #852 |
| 1980 | 108 | #851 |
| 1981 | 106 | #858 |
| 1982 | 103 | #876 |
| 1983 | 90 | #931 |
| 1984 | 108 | #843 |
| 1985 | 118 | #820 |
| 1986 | 130 | #796 |
| 1987 | 115 | #871 |
| 1988 | 123 | #856 |
| 1989 | 152 | #806 |
| 1990 | 146 | #845 |
| 1991 | 153 | #838 |
| 1992 | 165 | #814 |
| 1993 | 168 | #815 |
| 1994 | 196 | #750 |
| 1995 | 249 | #663 |
| 1996 | 223 | #711 |
| 1997 | 258 | #645 |
| 1998 | 312 | #596 |
| 1999 | 283 | #633 |
| 2000 | 310 | #613 |
| 2001 | 290 | #643 |
| 2002 | 281 | #665 |
| 2003 | 304 | #654 |
| 2004 | 301 | #673 |
| 2005 | 343 | #636 |
| 2006 | 384 | #618 |
| 2007 | 413 | #609 |
| 2008 | 582 | #477 |
| 2009 | 650 | #432 |
| 2010 | 647 | #427 |
| 2011 | 720 | #395 |
| 2012 | 946 | #333 |
| 2013 | 1,043 | #319 |
| 2014 | 1,545 | #241 |
| 2015 | 2,093 | #194 |
| 2016 | 2,092 | #193 |
| 2017 | 2,060 | #191 |
| 2018 | 2,291 | #169 |
| 2019 | 2,387 | #167 |
| 2020 | 2,432 | #155 |
| 2021 | 3,158 | #120 |
| 2022 | 3,418 | #109 |
| 2023 | 3,454 | #104 |
| 2024 | 3,876 | #88 |
