August
August places #81 across the country in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 68,182 bearers and counting.
What August carries
August · Latin
“venerable”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
August’s free Name Kit
Five printables for August, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
August since 1880
August is at its all-time peak right now: #81 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where August is most common
Among the states, August takes its largest share in Vermont, 0.83% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with District of Columbia and Missouri next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near August
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Lucia
#83 in 2025 · Latin
Luka
#85 in 2025 · Latin
Silas
#71 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
Stella
#52 in 2025 · Latin
Elian
#147 in 2025 · Latin
Felix
#175 in 2025 · Latin
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
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About August
How common is August today?
August places #81 across the country in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does August mean?
The gloss on record reads “venerable”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for August?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Lucia, Luka and Silas, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get August’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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