Unisex name
August
1,014 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2025. Expression number: 8.
Origin
Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Late Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos (“increase”), from Proto-Italic *augos, from Proto-Indo-European base *h₂ewg- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails + garrīre (“to chatter”). Doublet of august and Augustus.From Wiktionary, entry “August”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In England and Wales
Peak in 2025: 162 births. 1,014 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2020s. It is given to girls (12%) as well as boys (88%). It really came into use around 2014. It is still given: 632 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
In the United States
Peak in 2025: 4,226 births. 74,452 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. At its peak, it ranked 74th among boys' names in 1880. It is given to girls (8%) as well as boys (92%). It is still given: 19,390 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
Elsewhere in the world
The name in the birth records of the 10 countries we track. The period covered varies from country to country.
| Country | Births | Period | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 782* | 1915–2025 | — |
| Berlin | 762 | 2012–2023 | 68th in 2020 |
| Austria | 224 | 1984–2025 | — |
| Belgium | 213 | 2014–2023 | — |
| Quebec | 120 | 1980–2025 | — |
* These are the people living in the country, counted by year of birth, not the number of births.
Source: Federal Statistical Office, First names of the population by year of birth, free use with attribution; Open Data Berlin, Häufige Vornamen, CC BY 3.0 DE (every name a child carries, not only the first); Statistik Austria, Vornamen, CC BY 4.0; Statbel, first names of newborns, CC BY 4.0 (one total for the whole period, no yearly breakdown); Retraite Québec, Banque de prénoms, CC BY 4.0.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
8
power, achievement, your relationship with money
1 + 3 + 7 + 3 + 1 + 2 = 17 → 8
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
7
reflection, inner life, seeking
1 + 3 + 3 = 7
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
1
initiative, independence, beginnings
7 + 1 + 2 = 10 → 1
- Digits missing from the name
- 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
- Most frequent digit
- 1 · initiative, independence, beginnings
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.