Augusta
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Latinate feminine form of }Augustus, which enjoyed a vogue in Britain towards the end of the roth century
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 49 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Augusta is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- GLGreenland≈1 in 5.8K
- SESweden1 in 6.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Augusta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
10,351 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Avgousta in US United States, CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Latinate feminine form of }Augustus, which enjoyed a vogue in Britain towards the end of the roth century.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Augusta, 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)Augusta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 10,351 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Augusta | 134 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Augusta | 1 |
| PT Portugal | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Augusta | 64 |
| US United States | 4,637 | 1 in 72K | 4.3K | Avgousta | 144 |
| FR France | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 87K | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 2,040 | 1 in 2.9K | 2K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 1,602 | 1 in 6.4K | 1.6K | — | 5 |
| CY Cyprus | 337as Αυγουστα | 1 in 3.8K | 337 | Avgousta | 17 |
| GL Greenland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 48 | — | — |
10,351 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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)Augusta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Augusta är en femininform till Augustus (→ August). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 7 januari.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, region, Sicily; pers. name, Itali
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- žr. Aūgustas
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In French, Féminin d'Auguste, du latin augustus, « vénérable, sacré ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Feminine of Augustus, Latin 'venerable, majestic'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)- Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gothab. 1719DEGerman princess (1719–1772); Princess of Wales as wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales; mother of George III
- Princess Augusta of Great Britainb. 1737GBBritish princess (1737-1813)
- Charlotte, Princess Royalb. 1766GBnot in their usual nameBritish princess (1766-1828); eldest daughter of George III
- Princess Charlotte Augusta of Walesb. 1796GBBritish princess (1796-1817); only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV)
- Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachb. 1811DEGerman empress (1811-1890)
- Ada Lovelaceb. 1815GBnot in their usual nameEnglish mathematician (1815–1852)
- Princess Helena of the United Kingdomb. 1846GBnot in their usual nameMember of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1846–1923)
- Mary of Teckb. 1867GBnot in their usual nameQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
- Princess Margaret of Connaughtb. 1882GBnot in their usual nameBritish princess; Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf (1882-1920)
- Yma Sumacb. 1922PEnot in their usual namePeruvian-American singer (1922–2008)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)99 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2018 | 17K | #2,610 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 17K | #1,558 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 10K | #1,673 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.1K | #4,138 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 2K | #242 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.6K | #1,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 525 | #4,138 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2016 | 140 | #49 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 135 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64 | #1,673 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 56 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- What does the name Augusta mean, and where does it come from?
- Latinate feminine form of }Augustus, which enjoyed a vogue in Britain towards the end of the roth century. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Augusta have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Augusta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled augusta.
- How common is the name Augusta?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,351 people named Augusta in 2022, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/augustaThe 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, “Augusta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.