Agostinho

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Agostinho is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name19K records spelled Agostinho7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Ägöstinhö

• French given name11K records spelled Agostinho3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Àgostinho

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Agostinho is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Portuguese form of AUGUSTINE .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 10 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Agostinho Barbosab. 1589PTPortuguese Roman Catholic bishop
• José Agostinho de Macedob. 1761PTPortuguese writer (1761-1831)
• Agostinho Fortes Filhob. 1901BRBrazilian footballer and manager (1901-1966)
• Agostinho da Silvab. 1906PTPortuguese philosopher (1906–1994)
• Agostinho Netob. 1922AOPresident of Angola (1975-1979)
• Agostinho dos Santosb. 1932BRBrazilian singer-songwriter
• Agostinho Oliveirab. 1947PTPortuguese football player/manager
• Mabululub. 1989AOnot in their usual nameAngolan association football player
• Agostinho Cáb. 1993PTPortuguese footballer
• Danny Henriquesb. 1997NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 83 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Agostinho?

We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Agostinho (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Agostinho have the most bearers?

We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Agostinho in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled agostinho.

How common is Agostinho compared with other names?

In Mozambique, Agostinho is the 15th most common given name of 1,105 given names recorded there.

Is Agostinho a male or female name?

Agostinho is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Agostinho mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Augustine