Augusta

Where Augusta comes from

From Latin Augusta, feminine of Augustus. The places are mostly named for British royalty.
— Wiktionary's entry for Augusta
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1811
    Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach born
    German empress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #113 among girls — 151 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Peak, #108
    213 babies named Augusta — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #671.
  5. 1967
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname or place name.
Namesakes
  • Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach · German empress, 1811–1890

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.