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Augustin

Meaning — Augustin is the French masculine form of Augustine, from the Latin Augustinus — a diminutive of Augustus, from augere meaning "to increase, augment" and the related adjective augustus meaning "venerable, consecrated". Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), whose Confessions and City of God shaped Western Christian theology for a millennium, made the name inseparable from intellectual faith and the examined life.·French origin·Male·o-gü-STAN

Augustin Augustin carries the intellectual and spiritual gravity of its great saintly namesake — a name associated with the restless seeker who cannot find rest until he rests in God. Characters named Augustin in French fiction often project a searching, self-questioning interiority combined with genuine intellectual force, suited to stories of faith and doubt, philosophical French literary tradition, and characters who take ideas seriously enough to be transformed by them.

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Historical FictionLiterary FictionSpiritual FictionContemporary Fiction

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Augustin MoreauAugustin DupontAugustin RenardAugustin BernardAugustin LeclercAugustin Fontaine

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