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Australia name meaning

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Meaning and Origin

What does the name Australia mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.

Origin and Meaning of Australia

User Submitted Origins

Latin
55%
American
25%
Australian
10%
English
5%
African
5%

User Submitted Meanings

  1. 2 people from the United States and Sweden agree the name Australia is of Australian / Latin origin and means "South".
  2. A user from Philippines says the name Australia is of Latin origin and means "Southern Land".
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Other Dictionary Sources
  1. A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
  2. The smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
Wiktionary

First attested 16th century, from Latin terra austrālis incōgnita (“unknown southern land”), from auster (“the south wind”). Used also in 1693 (quotation below). Popularised by Matthew Flinders in 1814 (quotation below).

Distantly cognate to Austria – same Proto-Indo-European root, but via German where it retained the earlier sense of “east” rather than “south”.

See also Terra Australis.

  1. A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
  2. (geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.

Australia was also found in the following language(s): Albanian, Asturian, Basque, Central Huasteca Nahuatl, Finnish, Galician, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Latin, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, and Swahili

Fun Facts about the name Australia

  • How Popular is the name Australia? Australia is the 20,952nd most popular name of all time.
  • How many people with the first name Australia have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2019, the Social Security Administration has recorded 343 babies born with the first name Australia in the United States. That's more than enough people named Australia to occupy the territory of Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) with an estimated population of 66 (as of July 1, 2008).
  • What year were 5 or more babies first named Australia? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1900 when it was given as a first name to 6 new born babies.
  • When was Australia first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Australia is Wednesday, December 13th, 1876.
  • What year had the most people named Australia born? The highest recorded use of the first name Australia was in 1917 with a total of 12 babies.
  • Weird things about the name Australia: The name spelled backwards is Ailartsua. A random rearrangement of the letters in the name (anagram) will give Aiasatrul. How do you pronounce that?
  • Australia name meaning

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