August
The boy's name August has been in the national records since 1880, with 74,452 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 81st. About 54,000 Augusts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named August boys named August
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 74,452
- Estimated living today
- 54,000
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 81st
- Rank in 2025
- 81st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 6,270 / 68,182
How old the living Augusts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 74,452 babies given the name since 1880, about 54,000 are alive — 72 in every hundred. Roughly 41,000 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos (“increase”), from Proto-Italic *augos, from Proto-Indo-European base *h₂ewg- (“to increase”); or Latin avis, referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails + garrīre (“to chatter”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Augusts
- Svante August Arrhenius (1859–1927)Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist
- August Kekulé (1829–1896)German organic chemist
- August Bebel (1840–1913)German social democrat politician
- August Macke (1887–1914)German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter
- August Krogh (1874–1949)Danish physiologist
- August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868)German mathematician and astronomer
- August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845)German poet, translator, critic, and writer
- August Weismann (1834–1914)German evolutionary biologist
People named August with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where August is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, August is most concentrated in Missouri (2.0×), Louisiana (1.8×), Minnesota (1.8×), Wisconsin (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year August peaked:
August elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark boys | August | 7,559 | 6th |
| Sweden boys | August | 6,022 | 10th |
| Norway boys | August | 2,377 | 80th |
| England and Wales boys | August | 890 | 310th |
| Belgium boys | August | 828 | 87th |
| Poland boys | August | 315 birth registrations | 226th |
| France boys | August | 175 | 2,082nd |
| England and Wales girls | August | 124 | 1,705th |
| Switzerland boys | August | 81 | 867th |
| Scotland boys | August | 55 | 209th |
| Ireland boys | August | 24 | 468th |
| Northern Ireland boys | August | 6 | 392nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
August: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | August | 61 | 0.005% | 631st |
| French boys | Switzerland | August | 19 | 0.004% | 383rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | August | 1 | 0.002% | 200th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, August is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 34 of them.
August: rank by region
In 2025, August was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | August | 49 | 92 |
In 2023, August was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | August | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, August was given 2 times or more in 6 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Łódzkie | August | 158 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | August | 148 | 7 |
| Mazowieckie | August | 174 | 9 |
| Podkarpackie | August | 158 | 2 |
| Śląskie | August | 186 | 4 |
| Wielkopolskie | August | 248 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, August appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (24th), Province of West Flanders (24th), Province of Flemish Brabant (86th) and Province of Antwerp (94th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
August by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 176 | 106th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
August among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | August | 513 | 6,142 |
| the Netherlands boys | August | 1,493 | 5,564 |
| the Netherlands girls | August | — | 132 |
| Finland girls | August | — | 19 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 6,142 who carry it, 513 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
August against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.