Augie ranks at #600 with 204 entries, registered male. The name is a diminutive of August or Augustus, Latin-derived and traditionally associated with the month, the Roman emperor, and the aesthetic of late-summer warmth. On a pet, the -ie ending pulls the formal Augustus down into everyday affection.
The grandpa-name cohort
Augie sits with Walter, Norman, Murray, and Stanley in the deliberate-grandpa-name pet pocket — names borrowed from the early-twentieth-century human-name register and applied to small dogs with disproportionate gravitas. The cohort took off on pets in the 2010s, well before the same names started returning to the human chart.
Breed lean and sound
Two syllables, front-stressed (AW-gee with a hard G), with a warm opening that lands easily. The name recalls cleanly. It lands disproportionately on stocky, friendly breeds, including Dachshunds, French Bulldogs, Beagles, Pugs, and shelter mixes, where the visual register matches the dignified-old-man warmth of the name.
The Augie Doggie overlay
Hanna-Barbera's Augie Doggie (1959-1962) is a real if scattered pop-culture anchor for older owners: a small puppy with a comically formal manner, paired with his father Doggie Daddy. The lineage is loose and most owners arrive at Augie through the August-shortening route rather than the cartoon. The August baby name page shows the formal version climbing on the SSA chart through the 2010s.