Your Name: August Amari

Regarding your name, we went back and forth on a few different ones that we like; your dad loved Paris but I thought you would hate it when you were older (it was too feminine to me).  We also thought of Phoenix, Bentley, Loxley, Payton, and a few others I can’t recall right now.  For some reason the name August kept coming to us and one day on a walk I felt peace about it; it just felt right to us.  Your dad came up with your middle name (not exactly sure how), but we both loved it immediately! And so your name became August Amari. We hope people don't call you "Augi" or "Gus", thus we immediately put out there a nickname for you: Ari :).

Here is what we found on your name (quite impressive and inspiring)!

August: 

English Meaning: 
The name August is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name August is: Introduced to Britian by the Hanoverians in the early 18th century, became popular until the beginning of the 20th century.

German Meaning: 
The name August is a German baby name. In German the meaning of the name August is: Latin Augustus, meaning majestic dignity, or venerable.

Latin Meaning: 
The name August is a Latin baby name. In Latin the meaning of the name August is: Majestic dignity; grandeur. St. Augustine was the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

English, German and Polish speaking countries Additional info: In the modern English speaking world, August is better known as the name of a month rather than a first name. It appeared with relative frequency in the Victorian era, but has since essentially disappeared from use. "August" is still used as an adjective in the English language, meaning "lordly" or "venerated." The name August was given to many Polish kings, and it remains popular there. August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright and author whose works include 'Miss Julie.'

People with this name have a deep inner need for quiet, and a desire to understand and analyze the world they live in, and to learn the deeper truths.

People with this name are competent, practical, and often obtain great power and wealth. They tend to be successful in business and commercial affairs, and are able to achieve great material dreams. Because they often focus so strongly on business and achievement, they may neglect their private lives and relationships.

Amari:

[ 3 syll. a-ma-ri, am-ari ] The baby boy name Amari is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is as aa-MAA-R-iy- †. Amari is used chiefly in the English language, and it is derived from Sanskritand African-Yoruban origins. African-Yoruban origin: Derived literally from the element 'amari' which meansstrength.

Amari also means "Eternal" and " Promised or from God"
It also means giving God praise.
Amari also means a miracle from God.

The name Amaris is of Hebrew origin. It means one who god promised or promised by god.

Another really cool thing happened related to your name, months after we decided to name you August, my dad—your grandfather— wrote me the following email, informing me that we had an “August” in our Eastman family line.  We were so shocked and very excited to know you had a tie to one of your ancestors!

Shortened version of email:

August was born August 3, 1845 in Mechlenburg, Germany. When he was about 12 years old his family immigrated to America on the ship Humbodt and after a two week stay in NY, settled in Wisconsin. He entered the Civil War with the Wisconsin Volunteers at about 17 where he served honorably and was released when wounded about 3 years later. We had a record of his release and I will have to find it in my files. He was married to Eliza Sedgewick (Mitchell) a year later on 2 Nov 1866. Three years later, after their second child they moved to Red Cloud Nebraska.

Here is the full (kind of hard to understand version your grandfather wrote)

My daughter Amanda Noel & Mike & Beckham

& future little 'August' 

When I saw this email from Mom, it finally hit me and came to me and don't know why it did not really register to me before, but just now it did come to me with full force and I went into my Genealogy Stories of our family history (which I had send a copy to everyone, maybe not fully up to date one, but long enough to tell the stories of one 'August' (for Augustus Pierstorff-----very, very German) but he was only know as August to all his later family, married to Eliza Mitchell (from one of the lines of our Scottish lines), when they were very young living in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. Of course, in those days, and especially after the terrible Civil War, which a number of your great, great, great Uncles fought in and survived, happy to say because 'now we are' because them and their brothers, anyway, in those days it was always-----"go west young man"----free land for the taking out there in the west. So they moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska named after the famous Sioux Indian warrior chief who had fought with Sitting Bull but was finally put on a reservation so the whole country out there was opened up to settlers like our ancestors, and here they came. 

They had a big, very successful farm there by the time my Great Grandfather and your Great, Great Grandfather, Frank Eastman came a wandering out through this country from way back in NY looking for his 'long lost parents' and young sister his Grand Parents, Benjamin and Lucy Eastman had taken him back to NY when he was only 7 years old due to some kind of an 'Eastman Family Rowe' when they were living in Praireburg, Iowa where they had settled coming west from that wonderful, heavy forested, beautiful fields in Salamanca, NY. 

Anyway, Frank was about 17 then and worked his way across the plains to wind at this wonderful farm to work for August and Eliza Pierstorff for a time. Well, it must have turned out pretty well as he wound up marrying their daughter, May Pierstorff and had two children when they heard that Chief Joseph had been corralled by the USA Cavalry up near Montana and now he was being put on a reservation as well thus the whole western area of Idaho with those lush pastures and wonderful open hilly country was now open for settlers as well so off Fran and May went. Fortunately, they had finally tracked down where Frank's parents, Truman and Alseba (our Irish side on the Eastman's side), had gone. 

They moved from Iowa to a special medical clinic in Kansas just across the boarder from Nebraska to treat Alseba for TB, so down they came to visit with Truman and Alseba (first time seeing them for Frank for some 18 years)-----must have been quite a reunion but family says it was a very cool meeting as Frank was always told since age seven his parents had agreed to have the Grand Parents take him away from his family back to NY, which was 'never the case'----so you can imagine the coolness of that meeting and Dad even said 40 years later when he was just 18, when he went to meet them all in West Lake, Idaho, just south of Craigmont, Idaho, you could still sense the tension in the air between Frank and his Dad, Truman, but less tension with his Mother May, as later they had all moved here to West Lake, including 'August and Eliza' after they retired and sold the farm in Red Cloud. They all just wanted to be near the kids and grand kids as did Truman and Alseba as well and our Tautfest line had already come here from Kansas when they saw the flyers saying the Nez Perce Indians were now under 'the US Cavalry's thumb and the land west was open for settlers.

 So nearly 'our whole family line', Frank Eastman, Truman Eastman, Virgil Eastman (British), Alseba, (our Irish line) Emma Tautfest with her Father Fred and Mother Katie Fisher Tautfest (German - Russian----immigrated from Russia but were German's and you can read that story in account I sent you as well), 'August' Pierstorff, (pure 100% German)  wife (Eliza Mitchell--- Scottish), May Pierstorff, daughter and wife of Frank, (combination Scottish and German), all now here in little West Lake, Idaho as semi farmers, also owned the hotel, livery stable and blacksmith shop[and a great, great little cafe in the hotel where Granny May was known for her superb pies for 25 miles in any direction. This was the cafe she served dinner (lunch to us) as they were moving the whole building on a big winch skid about five miles away to be hear the 'new town' being built by the 'coming Rail Road'----amazing story. The people would miss Granny May's dinner with her pies so they would just come and jump on the slow moving building's wooden floor porch area then into the cafe, eat and jump back off to be on their way as the 'moving hotel' just moved along ! ! ! 

Anyway, 'little August'-----you now carry an amazing Eastman family heritage name from our 'August Pierstorff' and I, for one, and pleased as punch  ! ! ! I shall love you forever !  

AUGUST (AUGUSTUS) AND ELIZA SEDGEWICK (MITCHELL) EASTMAN

PARENTS OF MAY (PIERSTORFF) EASTMAN


**UPDATE March 13:

I put this in another post with pictures but we decided to keep your name as we initially wanted it but we have decided to call you by your middle name, Amari or Ari for short.  It just seemed to fit you better :)