Augusta

Locally spelled Avgousta in US United States, CY Cyprus.

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.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Augusta, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Gussie
• Bernadette
• Beatrice
• Beatrix
• Dorothea

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Augusta is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Aügüsta

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Augustä

77 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.

Augusta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Augusta är en femininform till Augustus (→ August). I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 7 januari.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In English, region, Sicily; pers. name, Itali

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• - žr. Aūgustas

  as a name·Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

• In French, Féminin d'Auguste, du latin augustus, « vénérable, sacré ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In French, Feminine of Augustus, Latin 'venerable, majestic'.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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.

• Princess Charlotte Augusta of Walesb. 1796GBBritish princess (1796-1817); only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV)
• Ada Lovelaceb. 1815GBnot in their usual nameEnglish mathematician (1815–1852)
• Mary of Teckb. 1867GBnot in their usual nameQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936

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).

99 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 49 countries.

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

What does the name Augusta mean, and where does it come from?

Latinate feminine form of }Augustus, which enjoyed a vogue in Britain towards the end of the roth century. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.

Which countries have the most people named Augusta?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Augusta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled augusta. After it come Pakistan, Portugal, United States and France; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Augusta?

In Brazil, the national register counted 10,351 people named Augusta in 2022, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.