Augusto
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin. See }Augustus in main dictionary
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/awɡuʃtu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Augusto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 876(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 1.1K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #656 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 876 (inferred from the name graph)
112,121 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
- Middle EnglishLatyn(inferred from the name graph)via Latin
- Old Frenchlatin(inferred from the name graph)via Latin
- Latinlatīnus(inferred from the name graph)via Latin
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Latin. See }Augustus in main dictionary.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Augusto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #50 | 112,121 | 1 in 1.9K | 112K | Augusto | 249 |
| PE Peru | #49 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 876 | — | Augusto | 125 |
| AO Angola | #18 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Augusto | 52 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Augusto | 61 |
| AR Argentina | #259 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 1.4K | Augusto | 144 |
| PT Portugal | #102 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Augusto | 137 |
| NI Nicaragua | #43 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Augusto | 43 |
| PY Paraguay | #113 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Augusto | 44 |
112,121 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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)
Augusto 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 Portuguese, august (being part of a noble family)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, dal latino augustus, 'consacrato, venerabile'; talvolta dato ai nati in agosto.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, var. clássica de Agosto
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Agosti
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Venerabile
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Augusto Geninab. 1892ITItalian film director and producer (1892-1957)
- Sandinob. 1895NInot in their usual nameNicaraguan revolutionary (1895-1934)
- Augusto Pinochetb. 1915CLdictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990
- Augusto Roa Bastosb. 1917PYParaguayan writer (1917–2005)
- Augusto Monterrosob. 1921HNGuatemalan writer (1921–2003)
- Augusto Boalb. 1931BRBrazilian writer (1931–2009)
- Augusto De Lucab. 1955ITItalian artist and photographer
- Carlos Carvalhalb. 1965PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player and manager
- Gustavo Poyetb. 1967UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player and manager
- Juninho Pernambucanob. 1975ESnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
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)
Attested in 90 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 112K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112K | #289 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 105K | #454 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 11K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 583 | #246 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 564 | #289 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 498 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 498 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Augusto mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin. See }Augustus in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Augusto?
- A machine transcription gives /awɡuʃtu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Augusto a male or female name?
- Augusto 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 Augusto?
- In the etymology graph, August, Augustus and Auguste are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Augusto have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 112 thousand people named Augusto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled augusto.
- How common is the name Augusto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 112,121 people named Augusto in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Augusto compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Augusto is the 50th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Augusto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/augustoThe 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, “Augusto” — the 50th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.