Augusta
Augusta was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,215 among girls’ names; 18,281 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,050 Americans named Augusta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 24 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Augusta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Augusta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Augusta is “a female given name from Latin.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname or place name.”
From Latin Augusta, feminine of Augustus. The places are mostly named for British royalty.
/əˈɡʌstə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Augusta?
#3,215 among girls’ names, 2025
Augusta rose from #3,353 in 2015 to #3,215 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.9 to 30.5 per million.
387 babies in 1915, the peak
Augusta peaked in 1915, when 387 babies were given it (369 girls, #304 among girls’ names). The 49 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,215 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,085 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,920 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,304 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,300 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,738 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,229 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,965 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,605 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,149 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,353 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,279 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,010 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,503 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,584 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,755 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,118 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,651 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,223 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,863 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,385 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,399 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,354 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,076 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,030 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,944 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,318 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,932 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,775 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,475 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,092 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,588 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,571 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,348 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,210 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,522 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 34 | #2,984 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,234 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,266 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,709 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,430 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,984 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,099 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,017 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,622 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,587 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,989 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,127 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,176 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,499 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,399 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,691 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,529 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,479 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,035 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,523 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,783 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,848 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,411 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,199 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,925 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,678 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 62 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 54 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 60 | #1,192 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 55 | #1,219 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,158 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 59 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 67 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 49 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 64 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 87 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 87 | #823 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 89 | #756 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 77 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 77 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 70 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 87 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 84 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 99 | #665 | 0.09 |
| 1934 | 99 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 133 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 117 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 127 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 149 | #557 | 0.13 |
| 1929 | 130 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1928 | 157 | #558 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 182 | #522 | 0.15 |
| 1926 | 206 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1925 | 214 | #473 | 0.18 |
| 1924 | 241 | #449 | 0.19 |
| 1923 | 251 | #423 | 0.21 |
| 1922 | 243 | #426 | 0.20 |
| 1921 | 287 | #400 | 0.23 |
| 1920 | 304 | #380 | 0.25 |
| 1919 | 290 | #381 | 0.26 |
| 1918 | 357 | #347 | 0.31 |
| 1917 | 325 | #349 | 0.30 |
| 1916 | 342 | #328 | 0.33 |
| 1915 | 369 | #304 | 0.38 |
| 1914 | 266 | #323 | 0.35 |
| 1913 | 253 | #300 | 0.41 |
| 1912 | 252 | #288 | 0.45 |
| 1911 | 192 | #281 | 0.46 |
| 1910 | 181 | #288 | 0.46 |
| 1909 | 179 | #268 | 0.52 |
| 1908 | 176 | #268 | 0.53 |
| 1907 | 213 | #226 | 0.67 |
| 1906 | 181 | #239 | 0.61 |
| 1905 | 216 | #210 | 0.74 |
| 1904 | 188 | #222 | 0.68 |
| 1903 | 205 | #205 | 0.78 |
| 1902 | 195 | #214 | 0.74 |
| 1901 | 225 | #185 | 0.94 |
| 1900 | 245 | #200 | 0.82 |
| 1899 | 228 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 1898 | 248 | #185 | 1.0 |
| 1897 | 236 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 1896 | 265 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1895 | 288 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1894 | 272 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 1893 | 260 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 1892 | 290 | #143 | 1.4 |
| 1891 | 256 | #139 | 1.4 |
| 1890 | 299 | #130 | 1.6 |
| 1889 | 273 | #132 | 1.5 |
| 1888 | 270 | #131 | 1.5 |
| 1887 | 221 | #127 | 1.5 |
| 1886 | 237 | #120 | 1.6 |
| 1885 | 223 | #118 | 1.7 |
| 1884 | 217 | #117 | 1.7 |
| 1883 | 213 | #108 | 1.9 |
| 1882 | 183 | #113 | 1.7 |
| 1881 | 157 | #113 | 1.7 |
| 1880 | 151 | #113 | 1.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Augusta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 18,281 Americans recorded as Augusta, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 49 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Augusta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Augusta, and how old are they?
4,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 22% of the 18,281 Americans ever recorded as Augusta. The median Augusta alive today is 48 years old; half are between 24 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 4,637 people named Augusta (4,112 women and girls, 525 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,451 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 520 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 949 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 618 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 706 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 624 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 612 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Augusta born?
The states with the most babies named Augusta are New York, Alabama and Mississippi, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 945 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 584 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Mississippi | 475 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 402 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 331 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 277 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 263 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 209 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 200 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 190 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Augusta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Augusta is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Augusta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 18,544 babies since 1880, Augusta is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 49 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Augusta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Augusta and names like it
- Compare Augusta and AgustaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAugusta peaked in 1915.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Augusta since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Augusta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Augusta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Augusta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.