Augusta
About 18,281 American babies have been named Augusta since 1880, most of them around 1915. In 2025 it ranked 3,211th. About 4,100 Augustas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 47.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Augusta boys named Augusta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,281
- Estimated living today
- 4,100
- Median age today
- 47
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 304th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,211th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 16,588 / 1,693
How old the living Augustas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,281 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,100 are alive — 23 in every hundred. Roughly 800 of them are children and 1,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1978 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 Latin
From Latin Augusta, feminine of Augustus. The places are mostly named for British royalty.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Augustas
- Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932)Irish playwright, poet, folklorist
- Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858–1921)German Empress and Queen of Prussia
- Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796–1817)British princess (1796-1817); only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV)
- Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890)German empress
- Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719–1772)German princess (1719–1772); Princess of Wales as wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales; mother of George III
- Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737–1813)British princess
- Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916)Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768–1840)sixth child and second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte
People named Augusta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Augusta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Augusta is most concentrated in Mississippi (6.6×), Alabama (5.5×), Arkansas (3.2×), New York (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular girls’ names the year Augusta peaked:
Augusta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Augusta | 17,370 | 71st |
| Denmark girls | Augusta | 140 | 49th |
| England and Wales girls | Augusta | 115 | 1,805th |
| Switzerland girls | Augusta | 17 | 1,147th |
| France boys | Augusta | 10 | 602nd |
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.
Augusta: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Augusta | 12 | 0.001% | 995th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Augusta | 4 | 0.001% | 824th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Augusta | 1 | 0.002% | 192nd |
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.
Augusta 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Augusta | 873 | 4,177 |
| Finland girls | Augusta | 20 | 563 |
| the Netherlands boys | Augusta | — | 152 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 4,177 who carry it, 873 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – 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.
Where Augusta lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 179 women called Augusta were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badajoz | Augusta | 11 | 0.033 | 1,116 |
| Cáceres | Augusta | 6 | 0.031 | 1,358 |
| Huelva | Augusta | 6 | 0.022 | 1,858 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Augusta | 9 | 0.016 | 3,588 |
| Zaragoza | Augusta | 6 | 0.012 | 3,085 |
| Murcia | Augusta | 9 | 0.011 | 2,910 |
Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Augusta 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.