August Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Public name statistics give a good picture of the August surname. August is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name.

Researching the origin

No reliable dictionary entry explains August, so any origin we give a client is traced from their own ancestors. Spelling in old records was loose, so search for August under several forms.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists August with 6,456 bearers, at rank 5,389. That puts it inside the top 10,000 US surnames.

Heraldry and the August name

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named August, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Get the complete August report, with a museum-style coat of arms.