girls:
4.4k births since 1881
#2592 (55th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2022
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1881
#4141 (46th percentile)
The name Aura is the #4,141 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,369 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 46.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,592 (54.6% percentile) for all time with 4,364 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2022.
Aura first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 2022 for boys). Birth data for Aura is available in 141 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aura has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Aura reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 27.4% percentile (ranked #688) with 154 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 154 births per million (ranked 27.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aura is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #688 (27.4% percentile) with 154 births per million.
For boys, Aura reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #924) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aura".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Aura. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.1% confident that Aura is pronounced as AW-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OW-ruh, at 8.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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