Agustin
Masculine · “venerable”
Agustin is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 16,327 boys against 21 girls since 1880.
Agustin is the Spanish road out of Latin Augustus — the title the Roman senate gave to its first emperor, later softened into the everyday name Augustinus. It has been on US records for well over a century, arriving mostly through Spanish-speaking families and holding its place quietly ever since. Said in Spanish it ends on a bright stressed note, ah-goos-TEEN; said in English it settles back onto the middle.
How old is the name Agustin?
Agustin first appears in US birth records in 1898 — 127 years ago. The typical Agustin alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 14,000 people named Agustin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Agustin most popular?
Agustin peaked in 2001, reaching #561 nationally. Today it ranks #952, 391 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Augustus to Agustin
The story of Agustin
The Latin adjective augustus meant venerable or consecrated, and became the title of the Roman emperors from the first century BC onward. From it came the personal name Augustinus, carried most famously by the bishop of Hippo in North Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries, whose Confessions kept the name in circulation across Christian Europe. Spanish reshaped it as Agustín, dropping the u of the first syllable and pulling the stress to the end. In the United States the accent usually falls away in official paperwork, leaving Agustin — the spelling the records show, and the one this page follows.
Meaning
venerable, great, majestic
Latin Augustinus is a diminutive of augustus, 'great, venerable, consecrated' — the honorific title borne by Roman emperors.
How the name formed
- Augustus
- Augustinus
- Agustín
- Agustin
Related forms: Agustín · Augustin · Agostino · Agostinho · Augustine · Agustí
Pronouncing Agustin
ah-goos-TEEN
That is the Spanish reading, stress on the last syllable. In English-speaking settings many bearers answer to uh-GUS-tin instead, and plenty of families use both depending on who is speaking.
Nicknames for Agustin
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1898
- Most boys named
- 2000345 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #561reached in 2001
- Change vs 2023
- +14.5%245 in 2025, from 214
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Agustin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Agustín in Spanish — spelling variant
- Augustin in French — same name
- Agostino in Italian — same name
- Agostinho in Portuguese — same name
- Augustine in English — same name
- Agustí in Catalan — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Agustins among us
people named Agustin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 6,972 born in 2025 was named Agustin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Layne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Agustin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Layne climbed just as high around 1959, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Layne's path sketches the road Agustin is walking now.
Agustin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Agustin is headed
Agustin should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Agustin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Agustin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Traces an unbroken line from Latin through Spanish, with a meaning that is not in dispute.
- Has recognized counterparts in French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and English, so it travels without needing translation.
- Comes with ready-made short forms — Agus, Tin, Gus — already in real use rather than invented on the spot.
- Familiar enough to be spelled after one hearing, while a child is unlikely to share it with a classmate.
- Strongly represented in California, Texas and Florida, where both pronunciations are already understood.
- The accent is the sticking point: Agustín is the Spanish form, Agustin the version US paperwork tends to produce. Deciding early which one goes on the birth certificate saves a lifetime of small corrections.
- Two pronunciations coexist, and both are legitimate. Some bearers spend their lives choosing between them depending on the room.
- Expect it to be written Augustin or Augustine by people reaching for the more familiar English shape — a one-letter fix, but a frequent one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Agustins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 14,000 people named Agustin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Agustin in 2025?
- Agustin ranks #952 among US boy names in 2025, with 245 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Agustin?
- About 1 in every 6,972 US boys born in 2025 was named Agustin — 245 in all.
- Will my child share the name Agustin with classmates?
- Agustin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Agustin
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