Avgust

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ævɡəst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Avgust is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 11Kas August(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 3.2K
  • SESweden1 in 673as August

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Avgust itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

32,401 named August, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
120 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

АвгустCyrillic(measured from records)
AugustLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled August in US United States, SE Sweden, NO Norway and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Avgust counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Avgust is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—32,401as August1 in 10K28KAugust26
SE Sweden—15,150as August1 in 67315KAugust2
DK Denmark—8,268as August1 in 7108.3K——
FI Finland—6,038as August1 in 92320K—2
NO Norway—2,386as August1 in 2.3K8.7KAugust5
LV Latvia—766as Augusts1 in 2.5K789—2
SI Slovenia#6506521 in 3.2K652Avgust13
HR Croatia#518399as August1 in 11K399August28

32,401 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Avgust is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Avgüst

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Avgust is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "blessed."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • Russian form of AUGUSTUS .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Ludwig I of Bavaria, b. 1786August Ferdinand Möbius, b. 1790Ernst Haeckel, b. 1834August Weismann, b. 1834August Bebel, b. 1840Karl Liebknecht, b. 1871Friedrich Hayek, b. 1899Ernst Ruska, b. 1906August Landmesser, b. 1910August Ames, b. 1994
  • Ludwig I of Bavariab. 1786FRnot in their usual nameKing of Bavaria (1786-1868)
  • August Ferdinand Möbiusb. 1790DEGerman mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
  • Ernst Haeckelb. 1834DEnot in their usual nameGerman zoologist (1834-1919)
  • August Weismannb. 1834DEGerman evolutionary biologist (1834-1914)
  • August Bebelb. 1840DEGerman social democrat politician (1840–1913)
  • Karl Liebknechtb. 1871DEnot in their usual nameGerman socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League (1871-1919)
  • Friedrich Hayekb. 1899ATnot in their usual nameAustrian and British economist (1899–1992)
  • Ernst Ruskab. 1906DEnot in their usual nameGerman physicist (1906–1988)
  • August Landmesserb. 1910DEGerman shipyard worker and anti-Nazi protester (1910–1944)
  • August Amesb. 1994CACanadian pornographic actress (1994-2017)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Avgust
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20081.1K#154
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20091.1K#160
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.1K#163
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20111K#165
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20121K#167
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013968#172
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2014934#175
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2015909#178
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2016883#183
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2017852#186
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018815#194
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019794#202

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Avgust?
A machine transcription gives /ævɡəst/ (IPA) for Russian.
Is Avgust a male or female name?
Avgust is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Avgust?
In the etymology graph, Augusto, August and Augustus are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Avgust have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named August, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Avgust most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Avgust is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Avgust?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 652 people named Avgust in 2025, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
How common is Avgust compared with other names?
In Croatia, Avgust is the 518th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Avgust” — the 518th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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