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[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

when you hear/read the named AUGUSTINE, do you first think of a male or a female?
what about the nickname auggie?
what do you think about the name augustine in general?

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[usoccergurl.livejournal.com]

I think of a boy I went to school with Agustin. He was Mexican. Everyone called him Auggie.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

All names ending in -ine are female, if they end in -in they're male.
It's a French grammar rule.
It makes pronounciation different, too. Augustine is O-gue-stee-ne and Augustin is O-gue-stenn (gue rhyming with cue)
In English I'd pronounce them August-een and August-en.

[oh-so-sweet2me.livejournal.com]

I dont like AuGUStine..but I like Austine..and Austin

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

haha i like the gus part, it's pretty charming to me.
but i can see why you wouldn't like it, i didn't much care for it before, but it's really grown on me now.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

When I hear the name, I immediately think male name, though I've read that it's considered unisex now.

Auggie is cute in theory, but I think if I had heard it as a child, say, on a classmate, I would have thought, "Oggy? What the...?"

In general, when I think of the name, I think of St. Augustine. The city in Florida, not the man. Then I think about how I lived in Florida for nine years, but never went. I hear it's a nice town. So why didn't I go? Why?

Then I'd probably shake the baby for being named that.

Okay, scratch that last part.

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

haha your comment made me laugh.

that's true, i guess auggie would sound like a strange nickname if you weren't familiar with it. oggy...haha. i'm not sure what i think of the nickname auggie, or gus, but i do know i am quite fond of augustine. i can see it on either sex, since i've heard of both, but i think i'd prefer to use it on a son. i just worry that if it sounds like a girls name, he will be teased. but in my mind, augustine sounds more masculine and julian and adrian, and both of those names are popular amongst boys.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I think of a male cos of Saint Augustine

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

it was a male saint's name?? how could that be?

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

st. augustine of hippo (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine.html)

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Augustine

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

Agreed, definitely. Maybe because I majored in Philosophy. Ha.

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

do you think it would be strange to use if i'm not catholic?

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

no

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

okay, good. :)

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

male. it's a very masculine name. the only form i can see on a girl is augusta.

i like the nickname auggie, but i prefer gus.

and i like august or augustus more.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

i could see it on a girl, but i don't like it. it looks weird with the -ia ending for some reason. i prefer just augusta, because augustia sounds like aug-ust-ee-uh or aug-ust-ch'ya, both of which don't sound good to me.

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

I could see Augustine on a girl.

I know a guy named Auggie though, so I can only think male with that one.

[sevensevenfour.livejournal.com]

I think it's female. That's probably because it was the last name of the old reading teacher at the middle school I went to. I'm not particularly found of the name, and I'm really not fun of Auggie as a nickname. Although, that could stem from being a Texas fan, and it very much resembling Aggie.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Definitely a male, like St. Augustine.

[ale3000.livejournal.com]

I see Augustine as a female name, Auggie as a male name. Possibly because of Augusten Burroughs' memoir, Dry, wherein he mentions being given the nickname Auggie.

Augusten to me sounds like a more masculine take on Augustine. And for what it's worth, I hate the name Augustine.

[dragoncrab88.livejournal.com]

I think of a boy when I hear that name...and I am not too into such a name in the first place.

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

I think it's a guy's name. I think of the Roman "emperor"(he claimed he wasn't an emperor) Augustus (formerly Octavius) and the month August (also named after him). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus


I like the name on its own but wouldn't use it because of what I just said.

[missbailey.livejournal.com]

Its a lastname around here, so I automatically think lastname. Not a gender specific name for me, could go either way. I much like Augusten for a boy-- due to the authour Augusten Burroughs.

[sweatydog.livejournal.com]

I've only ever seen guys with the name so male.

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

thank you all for your imput. :)

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

input, i mean. haha.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

i think augustine could go either way. i always think of switchfoot's "something more (augustine's confession)"... great song :) it's a great name too. i'm not too wild about "auggie". if i was looking for an nn, i might shorten it to august, or maybe tina for a girl. i like it too much to shorten it though :)

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I think of St. Augustine, so clearly, I think it is a male name.

But, personally, I think plain August sounds so much more masculine! And I prefer the nn Gus to Auggie. Auggie reminds me of a frog for some reason...

I would be shocked if I heard it on a girl (especially since St. Augustine is so famous!) The feminine name is Augusta, which I like.

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

hmm...well i guess auggie does rhyme with froggy haha.

[lava-cake.livejournal.com]

I first think female, though it is a male's name. I like the nickname Auggie spelled Augie. I adore this name, and I would use it.

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

do you think a boy would be teased because augustine is somewhat feminine/unisex these days?
augie is cute, i hadn't thought about that spelling.

[lava-cake.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Maybe. I would use a more masculine form of the name, like Augustus or Augusten, for a boy.

And I fell in love with Augie when I found the band Augie March :)