Augustus
36
Babies in 2024
+125%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 36
+6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Augustus
Augustus is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (36) are up 125% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Augustus reached its peak in 2024, when 36 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #880 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 36 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 564 boys have been officially registered with the name Augustus in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 262 boys were registered with the name, starting from 16 in 2014 and ending at 36 in 2024.