Augustine
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Meaning
from the Roman name Augustinus, from Augustus, "exalted, venerable" (Latin augeo, "to increase")
Goes by Auggie, Gus. See all nicknames
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 across languages
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
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How popular is Augustine around the world?
In the United States, 2,981 babies were named Augustine between 2020 and 2025. In France, about 215 girls named Augustine were born in 2025, the 254th most common name among girls that year.
Augustine is on the official records of the United States, France, Canada, South Australia, England and Wales, Spain and Brazil.
United States
1 in 7,300
In the United States, 2,981 babies were named Augustine between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Augustine peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure. In US birth records Augustine has stayed between 969 and 2,981 births in every decade since the 1950s: a name everyone knows and few children get.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
France
1 in 3,000
In France, about 215 girls named Augustine were born in 2025, the 254th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Canada
1 in 10,000
In Canada, 28 boys named Augustine were born in 2024, the 916th most common name among boys that year.
In Canada, 8 girls named Augustine were born in 2024, ranked 2,463rd among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
South Australia
1 in 18,0002017
In South Australia, 1 boy was registered as Augustine in 2017.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
England and Wales
1 in 45,000
In England and Wales, 13 boys named Augustine were born in 2025, ranked 1,897th among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Spain
1 in 310,000
In Spain, 145 residents are named Augustine, ranked 6,083rd among men, with a mean age of 44 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Austria
last on record 2023
Augustine is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 44 people in Brazil were named Augustine, ranked 72,674th, with a median age of 41.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Ireland
last on record 2016
Augustine is not on the 2025 record for Ireland, where names under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
share of that year’s name registrations
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Poland
last on record 2013
Augustine is not on the 2025 record for Poland, where names given fewer than 2 times in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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