girls:
16.5k births since 1880
#1163 (80th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1880
#3010 (34th percentile)
overall:
18.2k births since 1880
#1907 (75th percentile)
The name Augusta is the #1,907 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,181 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,163 (79.7% percentile) for all time with 16,488 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,010 (34.3% percentile) for all time with 1,693 births since 1880.
Augusta has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Augusta has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Augusta reached its peak popularity in 1890, achieving the 58.5% percentile (ranked #123) with 1,483 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 1,774 births per million (ranked 55.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Augusta ranks #914 for girls (3.5% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Augusta reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #500) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 112 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Augusta".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Augusta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.1% confident that Augusta is pronounced as aw-GUH-stuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-GUH-stuh, at 28.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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