Augusta — #3072 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Augusta

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,540 babies named Augusta between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Augusta currently holds the #3072 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 369 babies received it in a single year. Augusta is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,693 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Augusta performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 2,827 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Augusta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 945 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Augusta in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Augusta 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 16,540 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.