girls:
5.7k births since 1914
#2208 (61st percentile)
boys:
60.3k births since 1880
#437 (90th percentile)
overall:
66k births since 1880
#903 (88th percentile)
The name August is the #903 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65,991 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #437 (90.5% percentile) for all time with 60,287 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,208 (61.4% percentile) for all time with 5,704 births since 1914.
August has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name August has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 92.2% of babies named August were boys.
For boys, August reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 89.0% percentile (ranked #101) with 1,878 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 1,918 births per million (ranked 67.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, August is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #101 (89.0% percentile) with 1,878 births per million.
For girls, August reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 33.0% percentile (ranked #627) with 183 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 183 births per million (ranked 33.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, August ranks #670 for girls (29.3% percentile) with 165 births per million, which is 90.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "August".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name August. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that August is pronounced as AW-guhst, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-guhst, at 20.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AO1 G AH0 S T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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