Entry № 1060 · Latin origin

Augusta Augusta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ aw-GUS-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Majestic / venerable (Augusta Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "majestic / venerable (augusta ada lovelace, first computer programmer)".

The US Department of Defense computer language Ada (1980, standard 1983) is named in her honor; Ada Lovelace Day is observed on the second Tuesday of October each year to celebrate women in STEM. Augusta Savage (1892-1962) — African American sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance; her 1939 World's Fair piece The Harp was destroyed at the fair's end and is known only from photographs — among the most-famous lost works of American art. Augusta Read Thomas — Pulitzer-shortlisted American composer.

Majestic / venerable (Augusta Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Augusta
Transliteration
Augusta
Pronunciation
/ ɔːˈɡʌs.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Augusta stands.

Augusta does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Augustas before her.

Real people
Augusta Ada Lovelace
English first computer programmer.
1815 – 1852
Augusta Savage
American Harlem Renaissance sculptor.
1892 – 1962
Augusta Read Thomas
American composer.
born 1964
In fiction
Augusta
Various Roman literature.

Names connected to Augusta.

The number behind Augusta.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Augusta reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.