Austin surname meaning

Austin began as a surname from the medieval personal name Austin, a shortened form of Augustine. Augustine comes from Latin Augustinus, related to Augustus and the idea of being venerable or august. In English records, a family could be identified as the household or descendants of Austin, even when the original man lived generations earlier. Austen and Austyn are historical spellings, while the modern surname also became strongly associated with particular places and families. Those associations do not change the core formation. Parent’s name is the direct, high-confidence catalog type.