Augustine
Meaning
from the Roman name Augustinus, from Augustus, "exalted, venerable" (Latin augeo, "to increase")
Goes by Auggie, Gus
The story
Augustine has never once left the American records: boys in every single decade since the 1890s, mostly between 800 and 1,500 a decade through the twentieth century, then a climb to about 2,500 in the 2010s, and with about 2,800 so far this decade it has already passed that full total with years to run. Early in the century it was a girls' name too, about 700 girls in the 1920s, a use that thinned after midcentury. The name is Roman Augustinus, from Augustus, exalted, venerable, from the Latin augeo, to increase, and it belongs to two saints who shaped the English-speaking church: Augustine of Hippo, the fifth-century theologian and Doctor of the Church, and Augustine of Canterbury, the sixth-century monk sent to convert the Anglo-Saxons. Gus and Auggie stand ready as the soft landings. A name that increases: it says so in the root.
Augustine around the world
One shared root links 7 names across 5 languages.
Shared root: from Latin augustus "exalted, venerable", the imperial title behind Augustus, Augustine, and their kin
The constellation
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Augustine peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
44 people · the #72,674 first name in Brazil · median age 41
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Augustine deep dive
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