AGOSTINI
Agostini is a surname of Italian origin.
The name is ultimately derived from the Italian personal name Agostino, which itself is the Italian form of the Latin *Augustinus*. The Latin term *Augustinus* is extracted from *augustus*, a word that in antiquity denoted someone who was venerable or great. Consequently, the surname Agostini is traditionally understood as a patronymic, indicating descent from an ancestor named Agostino or Augustinus.
In the Italian peninsula the surname is most prevalent in northern regions such as Lombardy, Emilia‑Romagna, Friuli‑Venezia Giulia and Liguria. It remains common in those areas and, through historical migration, can now be found in many countries outside Italy, notably in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and the United States, where communities of Italian descent have settled.
The earliest surviving record of the name in England is found in the Hundred Rolls of Cambridgeshire for the year 1272, under the spelling John Augustyn. In the broader medieval documentary record other forms appear, for example Marriota Augustin of Huntingdon in 1273 and Nicholas Augustin in the Subsidy Rolls of Worcester in 1275. Subsequent examples include Gertrude Augustin, who married Guillbart Wylkison at St Antholins church in London in 1596, and Frances August of Greenwich, who married Mary Fisher at Canterbury in 1663.
A number of spelling variants have been recorded across Europe. In France the name appears as Augustin, Aoustin or Outin; in Germany as Austein or Auxten; in England as Austen, Austin and Augustine; and in Italy it occurs not only as Agostini and Agostino but also in forms such as D'Agostino, D'Agostini, Agostinelli and Agosti. The variations reflect both regional dialectal differences and the evolution of spelling standards over time.
Although the surname may sometimes be interpreted as a reference to the month Agosto (August in Italian), the prevailing scholarly view is that it is chiefly a patronymic name linked to an ancestor bearing the first name Agostino. The sense of “venerable” carried by the Latin root is therefore preserved in the family name.
As a result of the widespread diaspora of Italians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the surname has become familiar in many parts of the world. Nevertheless, the name retains its strong connection to northern Italy, to the Latin tradition of *Augustinus* and to the historical continuity of the medieval European record.
Typical given names associated with the Agostini surname
Male
- Anthony
- Damiano
- Fabio
- Giulio
- Luca
- Marco
- Michael
- Richard
- Robert
- Stefano
- Stephen
Female
- Anna
- Catherine
- Fernanda
- Hazel
- Ilaria
- Jacqueline
- Kirsty
- Lisa
- Patricia
- Sandra
Similar and related surnames
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There are approximately 215 people named Agostini in the UK. That makes it one of Britain's least common surnames. Only around three in a million people in Britain are named Agostini.
Famous people named Agostini
- Linda Agostini - Murder victim (1905 to 1934)
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