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austin Name Meaning and History

  1. English, French, and German: from the personal name Austin, a vernacular form of Latin Augustinus, a derivative of Augustus. This was an extremely common personal name in every part of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, owing its popularity chiefly to St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430), whose influence on Christianity is generally considered to be second only to that of St. Paul. Various religious orders came to be formed following rules named in his honor, including the ‘Austin canons’, established in the 11th century, and the ‘Austin friars’, a mendicant order dating from the 13th century. The popularity of the personal name in England was further increased by the fact that it was borne by St. Augustine of Canterbury (died c. 605), an Italian Benedictine monk known as ‘the Apostle of the English’, who brought Christianity to England in 597 and founded the see of Canterbury.
  2. German: from a reduced form of the personal name Augustin.

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Distribution of austin Families in the US in 1920
Number of austin families
 861-1720
 288-860		 1-287
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Threads: 1901 - Messages: 4144
ThreadAuthorReplies
Ralph V. Austin SRicketts1212 0
Chester E. Austin, KENNELLYMARKA 0
AUSTIN Elizabeth FRAY 1839 1916 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
AUSTIN Feli Houston 1836 1919 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
AUSTIN Henrietta 1861 1951 t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
John Austin b. ca 1814 SC, d. 1880-1900 velamwhite 0
John Calvin Austin Ruth Austin Burns 2
Indiana D. Austin teresah011 7
Henry P AUSTIN b CA ca 1870 married Betsey EVENSON/JOHNSON poss MT MaryinSD 3
THOMAS AUSTIN - born 8 May 1814, Eng. Karen Rattray 1
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