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Aurea

#5,427 in 2025Girls' name

Golden

Aurea has been given to 1,255 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #5,427 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Aurea, 2025

1 in 144,000

Aurea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aurea: meaning, origin, and history

Golden

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aurea means

Aurea means “golden”, associated with aureus.

Origin, language, and formation

Aurea is used in Latin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Aurea is pronounced [ˈau̯.re.a].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,255 girls were recorded with the name Aurea between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,454 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,655 in 2020 to #5,427 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,605 in 2015 to #5,427 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aurea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,427
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aurea 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aurea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aureas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aurea was born before 1987 — so the typical Aurea is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
16.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,142
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Choose a decade

2010s — 16.3% of all recorded uses (204).

Is Aurea 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
+36
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−772
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−822
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.7%
Peak was 2015 (30)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,454
1956

Spellings of Aurea

Aurea is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 30.3% against Aurea's 0.05%.

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 Aurea is used

Across 1910–2025, Aurea was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 132,135 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —

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. Aurea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aurea around the world

Where Aurea 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
    2012–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1901–2025
    #5,495
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aurea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,427
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 772
Best rank ever
#2,454
1956
Peak year
2015
30 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,255
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Aurea

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

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Sibling names for Aurea

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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