Aura
Aura reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 817, and has been recorded 5,028 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 817th. About 4,300 Auras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Aura boys named Aura
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,028
- Estimated living today
- 4,300
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 817th
- Rank in 2025
- 817th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 5,016 / 12
How old the living Auras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,028 babies given the name since 1881, about 4,300 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 170 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
The name of the deity is from Ancient Greek Αὔρα, from αὔρα (“breeze”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Auras
- Aura Dione (born 1985)Danish singer-songwriter
- Aura Garrido (born 1989)Spanish film and television actress
- Aura Elena Farfán (born 1940)Guatemalan activist
- Aura Herzog (1924–2022)Israeli social and environmental activist
- Aura Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic (born 1972)Guatemalan human rights activist
People named Aura with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Aura is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Aura is most concentrated in California (3.3×), Florida (2.4×), New York (2.2×), Arizona (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Aura peaked:
Aura elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Aura | 605 | 520th |
| Italy girls | Aura | 470 | — |
| France girls | Aura | 220 | 2,233rd |
| Switzerland girls | Aura | 86 | 480th |
| Scotland girls | Aura | 33 | 442nd |
| Belgium girls | Aura | 26 | 1,228th |
| Poland girls | Aura | 15 birth registrations | 461st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Aura | 12 | 288th |
| Ireland girls | Aura | 10 | 727th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Aura: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Aura | 59 | 0.005% | 450th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Aura | 13 | 0.003% | 491st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Aura | 13 | 0.020% | 113th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Aura | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Aura: rank by region
In 2025, Aura was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Aura | 836 | 5 |
In 2025, Aura was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Aura | 326 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Aura by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 552nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Aura among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Aura | 1,118 | 1,725 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Aura lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,400 women called Aura were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Aura | 88 | 0.395 | 314 |
| Girona | Aura | 161 | 0.389 | 329 |
| Balears, Illes | Aura | 197 | 0.314 | 317 |
| Tarragona | Aura | 107 | 0.245 | 437 |
| Barcelona | Aura | 597 | 0.196 | 442 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Aura | 46 | 0.146 | 590 |
Listed in 41 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 11 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Aura against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.