Aust Family History
Aust Name Meaning
German: from a shortened form of the personal name August or Augustin . English: habitational name from Aust Gloucestershire whose name derives from Latin augustus ‘consecrated majestic venerable’ in a Vulgar Latin and Brittonic Celtic form agust- with possible reference to the Roman Second Legion (Augusta) stationed at Caerleon on Usk just across the Severn from Aust in 75 C.E.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022