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Auguste

#3,852 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Amplified, increased, augmented, strengthened, through Augustus

Auguste has been given to 496 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #3,852 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Auguste, 2025

1 in 118,000

Auguste over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Auguste over time

In 2025, Auguste went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18822025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Auguste: meaning, origin, and history

Amplified, increased, augmented, strengthened, through Augustus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Auguste means

Auguste belongs to the name family reached through Auguste → Augustus. Its meaning is “amplified, increased, augmented, strengthened”.

Origin, language, and formation

Auguste is used in French and German.

Auguste comes through Latin Augustus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Augusta and Augustus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Auguste is pronounced /o.ɡyst/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 468 boys were recorded with the name Auguste between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2024; its best national rank was #847 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,003 in 2020 to #3,852 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,731 in 2015 to #3,852 in 2025.

In the United States, 28 girls were recorded with the name Auguste between 1884 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,038 in 1884.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Auguste?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,852
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Auguste sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Auguste. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Augustes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Auguste was born before 2014 — so the typical Auguste is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
435
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2010s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (150).

Is Auguste rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−395
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,151
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+879
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.8%
Peak was 2024 (33)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#847
1882

Spellings of Auguste

Auguste is not the most common spelling — August is, with 59.8% against Auguste's 0.41%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Auguste is used

Across 1910–2025, Auguste was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,809,208 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Auguste has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Auguste around the world

Where Auguste ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #63
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #340
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Auguste by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,852
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,151
Best rank ever
#847
1882
Peak year
2024
33 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
468
Count in 2025
28

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,038
1884
Peak year
1998
13 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Auguste

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Auguste

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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