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Aurea vs Auria

American parents have registered 1,271 Aurias since 1880, against 1,255 Aureas. Auria is still ahead, with 54 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aurea against Auria, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aurea Auria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 93 years in which either name was published, Aurea for 66 years and Auria for 27 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Aurea Auria
Total US births 1,2551,271
Most in one year 3075
Babies in 2025 2354
Estimated living today 1,1001,300
Median age today 3310
Peak year 20152016
Best rank 4,584th girls2,446th girls
Rank in 2025 5,410th3,028th
First recorded 19181952
Girls / boys 1,255 / 01,271 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Aureas alive today are over 33; half the Aurias are over 10. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aurea Auria
France 430280
Switzerland 9412
England and Wales 4610

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aurea and Auria.