Aurea

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Aurea is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name64K records spelled Aurea12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, Portuguese, German

  Also written Áurea, Auréa, Àurea, Ãurea

• Catalan given name4.8K records spelled Aurea3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain

  Also written Áurea, Àurea

• a separate given name2.7K records spelled Aurea7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Ecuador

  Also written Áurea, Àurea, Auréa, Aúrea, Aurêa

• Indonesian given name1.2K records spelled Aurea2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Spain

  Also written Áurea

• Swahili given name749 records spelled Aurea4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Peru

  Also written Áurea

• Romanian given name731 records spelled Aurea2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Peru

  Also written Áurea

52 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●

Aurea 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.

• Splendente come l’oro

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• In Romanian, third-person singular imperfect indicative of auri

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, the bit and reins of a horse, bridle

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, feminine singular of aureo

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In cdo, Seer

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 93 years between 1918–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aurea of Ostiab. 250ITChristian martyr and patron saint of Ostia
• Aurea of Córdobab. 810saint, nun, and martyr, part of the Martyrs of Córdoba
• Lady Aurea Howardb. 1884GB(born 1884); daughter of George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, and Hon. Rosalind Stanley
• Aurea Aguilarb. 1943MXMexican multimedia visual artist
• Aurea MotaESresearcher
• Aurea Conceição Pereira TavaresBRBrazilian archaeologist
• Aurea Maria Immacolata Lumbauresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 533 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aurea?

We estimate roughly 39 thousand people bear Aurea (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Aurea have the most bearers?

We estimate about 30 thousand people bear Aurea in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aurea.

How common is Aurea compared with other names?

In Brazil, Aurea is the 640th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Aurea a male or female name?

Aurea 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 Aurea mean?

Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. italienischer Herkunft, der au f Aurea, die weibliche Form des römischen