Augusta
The feminine of Augustyn, from the Latin for "great, venerable". Fewer than 220 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Augusta Pronunciation
Augusta is pronounced ah-oo-GOOS-tah (/auˈgusta/).
What Augusta means
Where Augusta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Augusta is the Latin feminine of Augustus, and it grows from augustus, meaning venerable or consecrated. The root links to augere, "to increase," which lends the word its sense of something raised and dignified. In Rome the term worked as a title first. Emperors gave "Augusta" to their wives, mothers, and daughters, marking them as women of the state before any child was ever christened with it.
The masculine forms stayed near. August and Augustyn draw on the same root, so a single family can pass the sound down its sons and daughters.
The Polish meaning settles into czcigodna, wspaniała: worthy of honour, and great. A girl named Augusta on a school register carries a word that once outranked the people around it. The name still means venerable.
When Augusta celebrates name day
Augusta appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 31 October.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Augusta
1 in 102940 women in Poland is named Augusta. 219 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2104 among female names.
Augusta as a middle name
Augusta is a first name for 219 women in Poland and a middle name for another 247, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 431st, between Stephanie (248) and Lisa (246).
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#429 Irmgarda249
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#430 Stephanie248
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#431 Augusta247
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#432 Lisa246
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#433 May246