Augusta
Augusta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. Its best rank was 108th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 520.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1915369 births
- Best rank
- #108in 1883
- Since 1880
- 18,233people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,540 girls have been named Augusta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 369 births.
The name has all but left use: 52 births in 2024, against 369 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1915, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 65 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,693 boys have also been given it, 9.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Augusta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,145 | |
| 1890s | 2,642 | |
| 1900s | 2,023 | |
| 1910s | 2,827 | |
| 1920s | 2,215 | |
| 1930s | 1,042 | |
| 1940s | 694 | |
| 1950s | 488 | |
| 1960s | 283 | |
| 1970s | 372 | |
| 1980s | 322 | |
| 1990s | 471 | |
| 2000s | 371 | |
| 2010s | 435 | |
| 2020s | 210 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Augusta was the 304th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Augusta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Effiepeak 1919
- Maypeak 1919
- Minniepeak 1916
- Myrtiepeak 1917
- Bellpeak 1900
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Maymepeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.