August ranks at #624 with 196 entries, registered male on this chart. The name is the late-summer month and a Latin-rooted human name (Augustus, meaning venerable), and on a pet registry it carries the literary-refined-male register for dogs born in late summer or adopted out of August shelters.
The month-as-name cohort
August sits with May, June, and Winter in the month-and-season-name pet pocket. The naming logic is often biographical: the dog joined the family in August, and the owners locked in the date as the name. The cohort skews slightly more feminine on May and June, but August holds the male-leaning register cleanly.
The literary-classical overlay
For a slice of owners, August carries the literary-classical overlay shared with Atticus, Oliver, and Sebastian: a refined three-syllable name with Roman roots, picked by design-conscious households leaning into a particular educated-millennial aesthetic. The name has climbed strongly on human-baby charts since the 2010s, which means pet August now reads as parallel to the human-naming wave rather than a separate cultural channel.
Sound and breed lean
Two syllables, front-stressed (AW-gust), with a soft opening vowel and a hard ending consonant. The shape carries cleanly. The name lands disproportionately on medium-to-large dignified breeds: Golden Retrievers, Bernese Mountain Dogs, Labradors, and large mixed-breed rescues. The human August page shows strong 2010s SSA climb; pet August runs alongside.