August

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Male Name

Usage

Finnish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Augustus

Related Names

See Augustus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Augustinpoika
Augustsen
Augustson
Augustssen
Augustsson
Augustssøn
Augustsøn

Female

Augustdatter
Augustdotter
Augustintytär
Augustsdatter
Augustsdotter
Augustsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	August
Genitive:	Augusts

- Faroese
Nominative:	August
Accusative:	August
Dative:	Augusti
Genitive:	Augusts

- Finnish
Nominative:	August
Genitive:	Augustin
Partitive:	Augustia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	August
Accusative:	August
Dative:	Augusti
Genitive:	Augusts

- Norwegian
Nominative:	August
Genitive:	Augusts

- Swedish
Nominative:	August
Genitive:	Augusts

Name Days

Finland

7 January

Norway

28 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 January

Sweden

7 January

Further Information

• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1661
  • Mid-17th century
• Norway:
  • Around 1900
• Iceland:
  • 1801 (Snæfellsnessýsla)
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 17 September 2009

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1885-1909
• Denmark:
  • -1910
  • 1990-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: Sønderjylland
• Sweden: Västergötland (19th century) see map

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 (Physiology or Medicine, 1920)
• Finland:
  • Karl-August Fagerholm (31 December 1901 – 22 May 1984), Finnish politician and prime minister of Finland (1948–1950, 1956–1957 and 1958–1959)

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		5620	11326	2	9	5618	11317
Finland		n.a.	18667	n.a.	17	n.a.	18650
Denmark		6119	n.a.	2	n.a.	6117	n.a.
Greenland		3	20	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		1	9	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

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