Austin
Latin at root, meaning "great" or "venerable". A rare name in Poland: only about 100 people carry it, but it's given to more boys now than in years past.
Austin Pronunciation
Austin is pronounced ah-OOS-teen (/aˈustin/).
What Austin means
Where Austin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Austin is a Latin name in disguise. English speakers of the Middle Ages wore down the long form Augustinus into something shorter, and Augustine became Austin in daily use. Behind both stands Augustus, the Latin title that carried the meanings great, venerable, magnificent, or in Polish czcigodny, godny szacunku.
The English took to the short form early. In London the Augustinian friars were known as the Austin Friars, and a street in the City still keeps that name. Augustine of Canterbury, sent in 597 to convert the English kingdoms, made the fuller name familiar long before the clipped one settled in.
The grand sense arrived by association. Augustus was a title of honour before it was ever a personal name, so the ideas of reverence and majesty attached to it, then passed to every Austin who followed. No diminutive softens it and no feminine form doubles it. The name stands as it is. What a Polish class register would record, plainly, is Austin: the English face of a Latin word for venerable.
How many people are named Austin
1 in 203297 men in Poland is named Austin. 105 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3333 among male names.
Austin's popularity over time
4 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1010 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2022.
Austin as a middle name
Austin is a first name for 105 men in Poland and a middle name for another 61, a 63/37 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 934th, between Vladimir (62) and Berk (61).
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#932 Sykstus62
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#933 Vladimir62
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#934 Austin61
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#935 Berk61
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#936 Bertold61