Auguste

Where Auguste comes from

Auguste hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1798
    Auguste Comte born
    French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist
  2. 1840
    Auguste Rodin born
    French sculptor
  3. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #837
    #837 among boys with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  4. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1999
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Auguste Comte · French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist, 1798–1857
  • Auguste Rodin · French sculptor, 1840–1917
  • Auguste Beernaert · Belgian prime minister and human rights activist, 1829–1912
  • Auguste Escoffier · French chef and culinary writer, 1846–1935
  • Auguste Piccard · Swiss physicist, 1884–1962

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.