Austin Family History
Austin Name Meaning
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.German:
from a reduced form of the personal name Augustin.
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Name Distribution of Austin Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Austin families
 861 - 1,720  288 - 860 |
 1 - 287  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Austin families
|
1,493 - 2,983 498 - 1,492 |
1 - 497 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Austin families
|
63 - 124 22 - 62 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Austin Family Origin
Austin Immigration Information
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Austin Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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