Aurea
Aurea was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,427 among girls’ names; 1,255 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Aurea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 13 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aurea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aurea mean?
Wiktionary, Latin section
Aurea is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “golden” (aureus).
From the feminine form of the Latin adjective aureus (“golden”)
[ˈau̯.re.a]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Latin section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aurea?
#5,427 among girls’ names, 2025
Aurea fell from #4,605 in 2015 to #5,427 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 14.3 per million.
30 babies in 2015, the peak
Aurea peaked in 2015, when 30 girls were given it, #4,605 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,427 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,463 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,264 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,746 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,981 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,655 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,325 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,836 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,315 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,440 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,605 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,489 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,156 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,794 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,363 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,320 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,725 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,459 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,589 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,557 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,027 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,917 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,629 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,261 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,993 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,241 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,771 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,096 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,975 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,887 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,696 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,711 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,110 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,856 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,193 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,321 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,992 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,628 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,627 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,807 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,640 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,931 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,848 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,178 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,364 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,749 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,242 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,955 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,238 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,169 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,644 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,049 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,897 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,542 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,514 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,218 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,206 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,618 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,094 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,568 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,059 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,707 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,548 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,167 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,965 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,932 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,109 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,764 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,949 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,454 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,394 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,186 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,120 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,950 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,817 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,343 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,195 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,225 | 4.1 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,665 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,042 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,403 | 4.4 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,382 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,605 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,100 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,775 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,896 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,347 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,064 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,503 | 4.8 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,045 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,990 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,858 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,332 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aurea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aurea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aurea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aurea, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,255 Americans ever recorded as Aurea. The median Aurea alive today is 34 years old; half are between 13 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 3,803 people named Aurea (3,795 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,005 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 169 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 227 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 203 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 292 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aurea born?
The states with the most babies named Aurea are New York, California and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 223 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| California | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Aurea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aurea is most over-represented in New York: since 1918 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aurea with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 244,545 babies since 1880, Aurea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 16,023 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aurea
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aurea and names like it
- Compare Aurea and AuroraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAurea peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aurea since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Aurea: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Aurea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aurea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.