Augie

Where Augie comes from

From Augustus + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Augie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1956
    Peak, #1,676
    22 babies named Augie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,538.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Augustus, from Latin.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.