Avgustas as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Avgustas

What is the meaning of the name Avgustas ?

The baby name Avgustas is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /avˈɡus.tas/ (av-GOOS-tas).

Avgustas is Lithuanian in Origin.

Avgustas is a Baltic-Slavic inflected form of the Latin name Augustus, meaning “venerable” or “majestic.” The name traces to the honorific adopted by the first Roman emperor and spread widely through imperial prestige and Christian usage. In Eastern Europe, Church Slavonic introduced the forms Avgust (August) and Avgustin (Augustine), which influenced Baltic naming; Avgustas applies a Lithuanian masculine -as ending to the Slavic stem. In Lithuania it appears in modern records but remains rarer than Augustas, lending a distinctive, old-world tone while keeping the classical meaning.

Related variants include Augustus (Latin/English), August (German/Scandinavian/English), Augusto (Italian/Spanish/Portuguese), Augustas (Lithuanian), Augusts (Latvian), Avgust (Russian/Serbian/Slovene), Augustin/Avgustin (Central and Eastern Europe), and feminine forms Augusta, Auguste (German/French), and Augustė (Lithuanian). Common nicknames are Gus (English) and Gustas (Lithuanian). The name also connects to the month August, itself named for Emperor Augustus.

⚙ Avgustas turns up in none of the birth registries or name datasets we cover. Names like this are usually very rare, tied to a particular region or tradition, or freshly invented. Whatever the reason, hardly anyone else has it.