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Also Romansh:
Source: "Vornamen in der Schweiz. Prénoms en Suisse. I nomi in Svizzera. Prenoms in Svizra" (1993) published by the Association of Swiss registrars
https://sursassiala.ch/2015/01/15/familienforschung/
https://nossaistorgia.ch/entries/v78VqApnVW4
https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=107
I named my son August after his great grandfather, and I am always so happy when people tell me it's a lovely name. I spent my entire pregnancy debating on a name for him, and it fits him perfectly. We call him The Guster for his nickname :)
Ágost, Ágoston in Hungarian.
Also Languedocian and Gascon: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=290 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans
Also Finnish and name day January 7.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/August
https://almanakka.helsinki.fi/en/name-days/name-day-search.html [noted -ed]
Also Estonian: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_(eesnimi)
This name can also SOMETIMES be FEMININE, making it UNISEX.
In the USA, it's just LEANING as a FEMININE name. It's STILL popular as a MASCULINE name.
In the UK, 6 girls and 3 boys were born AUGUST in 1997.
The WIKTIONARY source DEFINES this name as UNISEX.
https://www.names.org/n/August/about
https://names.darkgreener.com/#August
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/August#English
Also sometimes used as a feminine name in modern times.
Usage: DutchPronounced: OW-guwst (German), OW-goost (Polish, Danish), OW-khuyst (Dutch), OWNG-guyst (Swedish), AW-gəst (English)Meaning: Form of AUGUSTUS used in several languages. This is the name of the eighth month of the year, which was originally named for the Roman Emperor Augustus, otherwise known as Octavian.
In 2018, 2 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) August who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 1, 528th most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.
A lot of girls are named August :/
The name August was unfortunately given to 242 girls born in the US in 2015.
99 percent of the world history uses this name for a boy. Giving this name to a girl would be like naming a boy Julia. None the wiser, no damage ha lol.
August is also the Occitan form of Augustus.
August was extremely popular in Sweden in the late 1800s. Approximately 1/4 of all boys born were given the name August (first or middle name). August is again popular in Sweden and has been on the top 100 for several years.
Also used in Croatia.
I actually had a friend (who was a girl) with this name.

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