August — #88 US boys' name

What the Data Says About August

The Social Security Administration has registered 64,194 babies named August between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, August currently holds the #88 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 3,876 babies received it in a single year. August is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,998 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that August performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 16,338 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, August shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,764 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list August in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for August in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 64,194 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.