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Augustine vs Augusto

American parents have registered 20,006 Augustines since 1880, against 1,740 Augustos. Augustine is still ahead, with 587 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Augustine against Augusto, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Augustine Augusto

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Augustine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Augustine had 91 and Augusto had 25.

Side by side

  Augustine Augusto
Total US births 20,0061,740
Most in one year 58748
Babies in 2025 58748
Estimated living today 13,0001,500
Median age today 2130
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 545th boys2,676th boys
Rank in 2025 545th2,676th
First recorded 18801915
Girls / boys 3,842 / 16,1640 / 1,740

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Augustos alive today are over 30; half the Augustines are over 21. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Augustine Augusto
France 41,645405
England and Wales 22623
Ireland 2033
Poland 22

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Augustine and Augusto.