Augusta

aw-GUS-tah

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The name Augusta means “great, magnificent, venerable.” It comes from the Latin language tradition.

The feminine form of Augustus, a title given to Roman emperors denoting venerable greatness. Several European queens have borne this name, and it was a common name among Victorian aristocracy. The Augusta National Golf Club lends it additional modern cultural resonance.

Wiktionary and Wikipedia agree Augusta is the feminine form of Augustus (or August), and Wikipedia adds it may instead derive from Augustae, the title used for empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires. Neither source spells out great, magnificent, or venerable as a literal translation, though that sense is consistent with the Augustus root they both point to.

Wiktionary notes that places named Augusta are mostly named for British royalty, though it gives no further dated history of the given name itself, and nothing here confirms the specific queens or Victorian-aristocracy details mentioned elsewhere.

• Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (Princess of Wales)
• Augusta Ada King (Ada Lovelace, computing pioneer)
• Augusta Savage (sculptor)

Sibling names that share Augusta's rhythm and register without echoing it too closely.