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Aura

#817 in 2025Girls' name

Breeze

Aura has been given to 5,028 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #817 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 333 recorded.

Babies named Aura, 2025

1 in 9,960

Aura over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aura: meaning, origin, and history

Breeze

Latin

What Aura means

Aura means “breeze”, associated with aúra.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

The name of the deity is from Ancient Greek Αὔρα (Aúra), from αὔρα (aúra, “breeze”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Aura (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aura is used in English, Faroese, Finnish, Italian and Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Latin.

Aura comes through Ancient Greek Αὔρα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aurelia and Aurora.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Aura is pronounced /ˈɑu̯rɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,016 girls were recorded with the name Aura between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 333 in 2025; its best national rank was #511 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,207 in 2020 to #817 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,061 in 2015 to #817 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Aura between 2022 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2025; its best national rank was #9,800 in 2025.

How common is Aura?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,960
333 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,830
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#817
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,902 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aura sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,902 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Auras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aura was born before 2009 — so the typical Aura is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,285
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (1,599).

Is Aura rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+54
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+390
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,244
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.51×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (333)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#511
1882

Spellings of Aura

Aura is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 16.0% against Aura's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aura is used

Across 2016–2025, Aura was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 7,500 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 33,333).

325 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 4,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 4,762
  3. 3Florida1 in 5,263
  4. 4Rhode Island1 in 5,263
  5. 5California1 in 5,882
  6. 6Georgia1 in 5,882
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 5,882
  8. 8Arizona1 in 7,143

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aura around the world

Where Aura ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #642
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2024
    #541
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2020–2024
    #288
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2023–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1983–2025
    #2,233
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,151
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aura

People whose public names include Aura, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aura by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#817
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 390
Best rank ever
#511
1882
Peak year
2025
333 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,016
Count in 2025
333

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,800
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,800
2025
Peak year
2025
7 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Aura

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AuriAuriaAureaNuraAurieLuraAmouraAuryAurielMauraNouraAureliaAzuraSuraEuraAlauraSakuraIsauraAluraRosauraAurianaAurelieAlluraAurora

Names with a curve like Aura

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aura, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aura

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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