Aura

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Aurora [1]

2) Short form of Aurelia [1]

3) Allegoric name for Finland, from the Finnish river Aurajoki (Finnish name, Finnish joki = 'river') / Aura å (Swedish name, Swedish å = 'river') in south western Finland. Aura appears to come from Old Norse aurr = 'moist earth, clay' [1]

4) Greek αύρα (aura) = 'breath, breeze' [1]

5) Short form of Rosaura [2]

Related Names

     
Ára ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Faroese
Ávrá ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Aura ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Swedish
Auri ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish
Auru ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Finnish

Name Day

Finland Finland

10 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1818 [1]

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[3] Statimg f3.pngStatimg m1.png 72 125 1 1
Denmark Denmark[4] Statimg f2.pngStatimg m0.png 25 n.a. 0 n.a
Norway Norway[5] Statimg f2.pngStatimg m0.png 0 12 0 0
Finland Finland[6] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 2829 n.a 3
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Aura.

Sources: [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Own theory. No references found, yet.
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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