Augie
Masculine · “Venerable”
Augie is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 749 boys against 10 girls since 1880.
Augie is what English does to August when it is fond of him: clip the Latin to a syllable, add the -ie that turns a Roman emperor's title into a nickname, and you have a name that has been used on its own since at least the nineteenth century.
How old is the name Augie?
Augie first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Augie alive today was born around 1963, making them about 62 years old. About 600 people named Augie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Augie most popular?
Augie peaked in 1956, reaching #1676 nationally. Today it ranks #5208, 3,532 places below that high. See the whole 1956 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Augustus to Augie
The story of Augie
Augustus traveled through the Church as the name of saints and through the German-speaking world as August, one of the ordinary names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. German and Scandinavian families brought it to America in numbers, and the American habit of shortening did the rest: August became Gus and Augie, and Augie began appearing in birth records as a name in its own right. Its peak in the middle of the twentieth century belongs to the generation born to those immigrant families, and the baseball men Augie Donatelli and Augie Garrido kept it in circulation long after.
Meaning
Venerable, majestic
Augie is a pet form of August and Augustus, from Latin augustus, meaning consecrated or venerable. The word was a title before it was a name: the Roman senate granted it to Octavian in 27 BC, and the month of August is named for the same man.
How the name formed
- Augustus
- August
- Augie
Related forms: Augustus · August · Augusto · August · Augusto
Pronouncing Augie
AW-ghee
Two syllables, with a hard g as in goose, not the soft g of gee. Rhymes with doggy in most American speech.
Nicknames for Augie
Moderate
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
- 1915
- Most boys named
- 202128 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1676reached in 1956
- Change vs 2024
- −5.3%18 in 2025, from 19
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.
Augie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Augustus in Latin — related form
- August in German — related form
- Augusto in Italian — related form
- August in Polish — related form
- Augusto in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Augies among us
people named Augie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 94,893 born in 2025 was named Augie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Augie
- #5208
- Augie on the 2025 chart
- #881
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Augie went to 18 boys in 2025, but Auggie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 47, which makes it the 881st most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,327 places above the chart.
- Auggie29
- Augie18
About 1 boy in 36,342 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,893 for Augie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Avis test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Augie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Avis climbed just as high around 1913, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Avis's path sketches the road Augie is walking now.
Augie 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
Augie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Augie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a warm, finished name that needs no shortening.
- August and Augustus sit behind it as formal options on a birth certificate.
- The Latin root is documented and the meaning is not in dispute.
- It reads as a nickname to many people, who will ask what it is short for.
- The Auggie spelling is common enough that the name will be written both ways.
- It carries a distinctly mid-century, immigrant-American register.
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Masculine · #5208 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Augies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Augie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Augie?
- Augie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Auggie is the more common one — 29 births in 2025 against 18 for Augie.
- How popular is the name Augie in 2025?
- Augie ranks #5208 among US boy names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Augie?
- About 1 in every 94,893 US boys born in 2025 was named Augie — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Augie with classmates?
- Augie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Augie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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