In 2025, 49 US girls were named Augusta, making it the 3,215th most common girls’ name of the year, down 130 places from #3,085 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 52 girls named Augusta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #108, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 369, in 1915. For comparison, it was #3,353 in 2015 and #1,193 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Augusta in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 156 babies with the name. In all, 18,281 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 9.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 3,025 babies named Augusta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 456 US girls were named Augusta; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Gusta and Agusta are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Aggy, Gatsy, Gussie and Tina.
Meaning
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