# Avgust

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**Avgust** is a male [given name](/source/Given_name).

## Russian name

In [Russian](/source/Russian_language), Avgust (Russian: А́вгуст or Авгу́ст) is a male given name.[1] Its feminine versions are [Avgusta](/source/Avgusta)[2] and [Avgustina](/source/Avgustina).[3] The name is derived from the [Latin](/source/Latin) word *augustus*, which means *majestic*,[2] but originally meant *devoted to an [augur](/source/Augur)* (a priest who practiced [augury](/source/Augury), interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds).[1]

The name was included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, but was omitted from the official [Synodal](/source/Synod) [Menologium](/source/Menologium) at the end of the 19th century.[4] In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,[4] which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia.[5]

Its [diminutives](/source/Diminutive) include **Ava** (А́ва),[1] **Gutya** (Гу́тя),[1] **Gusta** (Гу́ста),[2] **Gustya** (Гу́стя),[2] and **Gustey** (Густе́й).[6]

The [patronymics](/source/Patronymic) derived from "Avgust" are "А́вгустович" (*Avgustovich*; masculine) and "А́вгустовна" (*Avgustovna*; feminine).[2]

"Avgust" is also a colloquial form of the given name [Avgustin](/source/Avgustin).[2]

## People with the name

- [Avgust Černigoj](/source/Avgust_%C4%8Cernigoj) (1898–1985), Slovenian/Yugoslavian painter, avant-garde experimenter in Constructivism
- [Avgust Demšar](/source/Avgust_Dem%C5%A1ar), (born 1962), Slovenian detective fiction writer
- [Avgust Ipavec](/source/Avgust_Ipavec) (born 1940), Slovenian composer and priest
- Avgust Pavel, Slovenian spelling of the name of [Ágoston Pável](/source/%C3%81goston_P%C3%A1vel) (born 1886), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist, and historian
- [Avgust Pirjevec](/source/Avgust_Pirjevec) (1887–1944), Slovene literary scholar, lexicographer, and librarian
- [Avgust Tsivolko](/source/Avgust_Tsivolko) (1810–1839), Russian navigator and Arctic explorer

## See also

- [August (disambiguation)](/source/August_(disambiguation))
- [Avguštine](/source/Avgu%C5%A1tine)
- [Sebastian (name)](/source/Sebastian_(name))

## References

### Notes

1. Superanskaya [1], p. 21

1. Petrovsky, p. 32

1. Nikonov, p. 63

1. Superanskaya [2], pp. 22, 23, and 31

1. [Toronto Slavic Quarterly](/source/Toronto_Slavic_Quarterly). Елена Душечкина. "[Мессианские тенденции в советской антропонимической практике 1920-х - 1930-х годов](http://sites.utoronto.ca/tsq/12/dushechkina12.shtml)" (in Russian)

1. Superanskaya [2], p. 31

### Sources

- Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (*Dictionary of Russian First Names*). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-17-002940-3
- В. А. Никонов (V. A. Nikonov). "Ищем имя" (*Looking for a Name*). Изд. "Советская Россия". Москва, 1988. ISBN 5-268-00401-8
- [1] А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (*Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling*). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-8112-1399-9
- [2] А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (*Dictionary of Russian Names*). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-699-14090-5

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