August

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Usage

Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Augustus [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See Augustus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Augustinpoika Finland
Augustsen Denmark Norway
Augustson Norway
Augustssen Norway
Augustsson Faroe Islands Iceland Norway Sweden
Augustssøn Norway
Augustsøn Norway

Female

Augustdatter Denmark Norway
Augustdotter Norway Sweden
Augustintytär Finland
Augustsdatter Norway
Augustsdotter Sweden
Augustsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: August
Genitive: Augusts
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: August
Accusative: August
Dative: Augusti
Genitive: Augusts
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: August
Genitive: Augustin
Partitive: Augustia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: August
Accusative: August
Dative: Augusti
Genitive: Augusts
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: August
Genitive: Augusts
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: August
Genitive: Augusts

Name Days

Finland Finland

7 January

Norway Norway

28 August

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

7 January

Sweden Sweden

7 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Sweden:
    • August Theodor Blanche, 17th September, 1811 – 30th November, 1868, Swedish journalist, novelist, and a Socialist statesman
    • Johan August Söderman, 17th July, 1832 – 10th February, 1876, Swedish composer
    • Johan August Strindberg, 22nd January, 1849 – 14th May, 1912, Swedish playwright, novelist, and essayist
  • Denmark:
    • Schack August Steenberg Krogh, 15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949, Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen and Nobel laureate NNNobel.png (Physiology or Medicine, 1920)
  • Finland:

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[12]
5620 11326 2 9 5618 11317
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
18667
n.a.
17
n.a.
18650
Denmark Denmark[14]
6119
n.a.
2
n.a.
6117
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
3 20
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
1 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
2030
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
2030
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for August (m) Sources: [12][14][17][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for August (m) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for August (m)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of August (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for August (m)


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  7. Inger Lautin (Red.): Hva skal barnet hete? (1993)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. details see Name Statistic tables