Auguste
given name · Latin script
Meaning: august; noble, stately (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Norway (SSB): listed as female
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 47 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Auguste is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.3K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 5.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Central African Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)august; noble, stately
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Auguste, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Auguste 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #717 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Auguste | 12 |
| FR France | #545 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 87K | Auguste | 269 |
| CM Cameroon | #558 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Auguste | 23 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 3 | — | 7 |
| SN Senegal | #398 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Auguste | 10 |
| US United States | — | 665 | 1 in 500K | 4.3K | Auguste | 213 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 5 | — | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Auguste 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 French, du nom latin Augustus, de augustus « saint, majestueux, vénérable »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Du latin augustus, « vénérable, majestueux »; fêté avec saint Augustin/à la Saint-Augustin selon les calendriers.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin Augustus, « vénérable, consacré »; fêté le 28 août.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin Augustus, « vénérable, sacré »; fête le 28 août.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin augustus, « vénérable », nom d’origine latine.
as a nameLe 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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Auguste Comteb. 1798FRFrench philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
- Auguste Beernaertb. 1829BEBelgian prime minister and human rights activist (1829-1912)
- Jean Jaurèsb. 1859FRnot in their usual nameFrench / Occitan socialist leader (1859-1914)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)80 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 47 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Auguste mean, and where does it come from?
- august; noble, stately Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Auguste a male or female name?
- Auguste is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Norway (SSB): listed as female; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Auguste?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Auguste in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled auguste. After it come France, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Senegal; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Auguste?
- In the United States, the national register counted 665 people named Auguste in 2020, about 1 in 500 thousand residents.
- How common is Auguste compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Auguste is the 717th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Auguste?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/augusteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Auguste” — the 717th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.