August
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔɡəst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
August is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 10K
- SESweden1 in 673
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 412 (measured from records)
- 1 in 673 (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Augustus, Latin 'venerable, revered'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How August is read(measured from records)
August is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English61%
Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German20%
from Augustus, Latin 'venerable, revered'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
August (month)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Aus dem Rufnamen August(us), lat. augustus 'ehrwürdig, erhaben'; Familienname aus einem Vornamen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- Danish6.5%
August (the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against August, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
August counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | August | 17 |
| US United States | — | 32,401 | 1 in 10K | 28K | August | 412 |
| DE Germany | #456 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | August | 148 |
| SE Sweden | — | 15,150 | 1 in 673 | 15K | August | 60 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8,268 | 1 in 710 | 8.3K | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 6,038 | 1 in 923 | 20K | August | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,386 | 1 in 2.3K | 8.7K | August | 42 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
August is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
587, and has since become very popular. Both child and province were named in honour of Elizabeth I, the ‘Virgin Queen’. Among modern influences on the choice of the name has been the actress Virginia McKenna (b. 1931). Pet form: Ginny. See also }Ginger.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ludwig I of Bavariab. 1786FRnot in their usual nameKing of Bavaria (1786-1868)
- August Ferdinand Möbiusb. 1790DEGerman mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
- Ernst Haeckelb. 1834DEnot in their usual nameGerman zoologist (1834-1919)
- August Weismannb. 1834DEGerman evolutionary biologist (1834-1914)
- August Bebelb. 1840DEGerman social democrat politician (1840–1913)
- Karl Liebknechtb. 1871DEnot in their usual nameGerman socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League (1871-1919)
- Friedrich Hayekb. 1899ATnot in their usual nameAustrian and British economist (1899–1992)
- Ernst Ruskab. 1906DEnot in their usual nameGerman physicist (1906–1988)
- August Landmesserb. 1910DEGerman shipyard worker and anti-Nazi protester (1910–1944)
- August Amesb. 1994CACanadian pornographic actress (1994-2017)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 97 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.5K | #5,389 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.2K | #5,394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,265 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 50 | #10,486 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #51,948 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is August a male or female name?
- August is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name August?
- In the etymology graph, Augusto, Augustin and Augustus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name August come from?
- from Augustus, Latin 'venerable, revered' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How common is the name August?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,401 people named August in 2020, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is August compared with other names?
- In Germany, August is the 456th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
- What does the name August mean?
- In English, Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
- How do you pronounce August?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔɡəst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does August have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named August in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled august.
- Where is August most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, August is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 673 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about August?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/augustThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “August” — the 456th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.