Austin (given name)

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Austin
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameOld French
Other names
Related names
  • Augustine
  • Augustin
  • Agustin
  • Aostin
  • Austen
  • Auston

Austin is an English masculine given name, an Old French language contraction of Agustin as Aostin, Austin (regular disappearing of intervocalic [g] from Late Latin to Old French, compare month August : Old French aüst / aoust, French août[1]). Agustin is the popular form of Augustin,[2] equivalent to Augustine. Variations of the name include Austen and Auston.

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  1. ^ CNRTL : etymology of août
  2. ^ Albert Dauzat (foreword Marie-Thérèse Morlet), Noms et prénoms de France, éditions Larousse 1980, p. 16a.