Augusta is the Latin feminine of Augustus — from *augustus* ("majestic, venerable, consecrated") — the honorific title given to Roman empresses beginning with Livia (wife of Augustus Caesar) in 14 CE. **A top-100 US baby name from 1880 to 1899**. **Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852)** — **English mathematician and writer; daughter of Lord Byron; widely regarded as the world's first computer programmer for her 1843 notes on Charles Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine, in which she described an algorithm for computing Bernoulli numbers — predating the actual existence of a working programmable computer by nearly a century**. **The US Department of Defense computer language **Ada** (1980, standard 1983) is named in her honor; Ada Lovelace Day is observed on the second Tuesday of October each year to celebrate women in STEM**. **Augusta Savage (1892-1962)** — African American sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance; her 1939 World's Fair piece *The Harp* was destroyed at the fair's end and is known only from photographs — among the most-famous lost works of American art. **Augusta, Georgia** — home of the Masters Tournament (Augusta National Golf Club, founded 1932 by Bobby Jones). **Augusta Read Thomas** — Pulitzer-shortlisted American composer. **Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg** — mother of George III of the United Kingdom.
Featured throughout 19th-century history of science and art.
Augusta reduces to eight — the number of first programmer.