Augusta (first name)
Augusta is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Augusta ( Latin : the sublime ) is the feminine form of Augustus ; This is originally a title that has been awarded at irregular intervals to the women or closest female relatives of Roman emperors since the Empress Livia , the wife of Emperor Augustus, in the year 14.
name day
Name day is March 27th .
variants
- Auguste
- Augustina
- Augustine
- Austina
- Austine
- Guschi
- Guste
- Gusti , especially Austria
- Gustel
- Gustl (mostly male)
- Augi
Well-known namesake
- Augusta Bender (1846–1924), German writer
- Augusta von Buttlar (1796–1866), German portrait and miniature painter
- Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859–1927), American-French neurologist
- Augusta Gillabert (1869–1940) founded farmers' cooperative in Switzerland
- Augusta von Goldstein (1764–1837), German writer
- Augusta Holmès (1847–1903), French composer of Irish descent
- Augusta Jensen (1858–1936), Swedish genre, landscape, portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School
- Augusta Kaiser (1895–1932), German sculptor and ceramicist
- Augusta Karoline of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Augusta Laar (* 1955), German poet and musician
- Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1753-1835), Goethe's Gustchen
- Augusta von Oertzen (1881–1954), German journalist and writer
- Augusta Christine Savage (1892–1962), American sculptor
- Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857–1943), Canadian doctor and women's rights activist
- Augusta Read Thomas (* 1964), American composer and music teacher
- Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), as the wife of Johann Adolf von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf from 1590 to 1616, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
- Augusta von Hannover (1737–1813), Princess of Great Britain by birth and Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg by marriage
- Augusta von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1719–1772), by marriage to Friedrich Ludwig von Hannover Princess of Wales and mother of the British King Georg III.
- Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890), German Empress, wife of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
- Augusta Weldler-Steinberg (1879–1932), Swiss historian and Zionist activist
- Augusta von Zitzewitz (1880–1960), German artist
- Franziska Sibylla Augusta of Sachsen-Lauenburg (1675–1733) Margravine of Baden-Baden
Rome
- Flavia Iulia Helena Augusta (250–329), mother of Emperor Constantine
- Aelia Pulcheria Augusta (399–453), Eastern Roman empress
additional
- Augusta Lynx , American ice hockey team