Aura

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aura is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is the 99th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin aura 'soplo, brisa, efluvio', from Greek aéra/āḗr-related form.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua1 in 657◐
  • VEVenezuela1 in 780
  • COColombia1 in 1.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈30K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
237 ●

216K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.6K ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

AuraLatin · Spanish●401K records
ΑυραGreek · Greek●46 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Latin aura 'soplo, brisa, efluvio', from Greek aéra/āḗr-related form.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aura is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#99241,85393K rec.——Aura62
CO Colombia#19243,77817K rec.—38Aura132
NI Nicaragua#3522,89023K rec.——Aura23
MX Mexico—15,11012K rec.—23Aura128
PE Peru—13,16210K rec.——Aura38
US United States—10,72322K rec.1 in 31K11KAura237
GT Guatemala#6610,53810K rec.——Aura35
EC Ecuador#6648,035△164 rec.1 in 2.1K8KAura30
CL Chile#9954,181616 rec.—22Aura40
FI Finland—3,475△54 rec.1 in 1.6K8.4KAura10
BR Brazil—2,6912.4K rec.1 in 79K2.7KAura74
ES Spain—2,4005.1K rec.1 in 21K2.4KAura97

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish401K59%
  • English165K24%
  • Portuguese37K6%
  • Finnish13K2%
  • Indonesian5.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish401,49159%
English164,60424%
Portuguese37,2016%
Finnish12,9372%
Indonesian5,6761%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aura is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name174K records spelled Aura10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Ecuador, Brazil

    Languages: English, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Åura, Âurâ, Âürâ, Äura

  • Finnish given name18K records spelled Aura7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Aüra, Äura, Aurä, Aüřä

  • Indonesian given name8.5K records spelled Aura4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Aura, Aura'

  • Romanian given name2.9K records spelled Aura2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Italy

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aura is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Latin; from aura/Auguste, related to Aurélie and Auriane; gloss: « en or » / feminine form of Auguste.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, A subtle emanation or exhalation of any substance, such as an aroma or odour.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, aura (an invisible force surrounding a living creature)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • name of a woman (K)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In English, mother of Inachus

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0100200300400190019502000

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Aura in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
188110
188213
18838
188413
18867
188816
188911
18909
18918
18926
189311
189413
18959
18968
189713
18987
18999
190010
190113
19026
19039
190411
190510
19069
190710
19086
19099
191011
19116
19127
191314
191415
191526
191615
191716
191822
191915
192020
192118
192213
192319
192414
19259
192613
192711
192816
19299
193011
193110
193211
193310
193413
19359
19368
19376
193812
19398
19405
194112
19427
194311
19446
19456
194610
194710
19488
19495
195012
19519
195211
19538
195410
195512
195613
19579
195811
195911
196013
196118
19627
196319
196417
19659
196614
196720
196817
196914
197023
197130
197237
197340
197434
197538
197633
197744
197825
197939
198042
198145
198236
198341
198439
198530
198635
198730
198842
198931
199039
199130
199252
199330
199430
199545
199637
199727
199826
199930
200049
200137
200251
200329
200434
200552
200669
200749
200840
200967
201054
201155
201264
201364
201487
201595
201699
2017107
2018121
2019149
2020190
2021246
2022247
2023273
2024310
2025333

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 143 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Aura Kiiskinen, b. 1878Aura Herzog, b. 1924Aura D'Angelo, b. 1939Aura Elena Farfán, b. 1940Aura Urziceanu, b. 1946Aura Cristina Geithner, b. 1967Aura Dione, b. 1985Aura Garrido, b. 1989Aura Rolenzetti, b. 1989Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 93 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Aura
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202011K#2,342
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20248K#252
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—3.5K#781
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.4K#1,533
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.1K#5,855
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2K#5,121
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.9K#921
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—1.7K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.1K#3,609
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—874#602
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—603#525

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 724 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aura?
We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Aura (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Aura have the most bearers?
Aura is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled aura.
How common is Aura compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Aura is the 99th most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
Is Aura a male or female name?
Aura is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Aura mean?
Recorded meaning: Latin aura 'soplo, brisa, efluvio', from Greek aéra/āḗr-related form.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aura” — the 99th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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