Aura

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aura: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aura: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #288, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#288highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
2000	#3912
2002	#2868
2003	#4373
2004	#4598
2005	#4798
2006	#2781
2008	#5545
2009	#2759
2010	#4688
2011	#4764
2012	#1809
2013	#1639
2014	#1628
2015	#2705
2016	#1416
2017	#1371
2018	#1013
2019	#936
2020	#720
2021	#594
2022	#630
2023	#583
2024	#520

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 24 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #520 among girls in England and Wales, #541 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1998–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3142 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2020–2024
Highest recorded position: #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2020–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Aura appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 545 births with the name.

Aura across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aura's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3142 (1998)	#520 (2024)	#520 (2024)	24 of 27	545 (1998–2024)	75 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#397 (2020)	#288 (2024)	#288 (2024)	3 of 5	12 (2020–2024)	5 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#727 (2023)	#727 (2023)	#885 (2025)	3 of 3	10 (2023–2025)	4 (2023)

Aura by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aura in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000s	35	8 of 10	4
2010s	189	10 of 10	19
2020sbusiest	317	5 of 10	63

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 63 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aura appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #288 in Northern Ireland in 2024.

Aura's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#520	75	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#583	66	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#630	60	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#594	65	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#720	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#936	38	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1371	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1416	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1639	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1998 and 2025, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #288, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 75 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Aurelia · #119, 30y
Aurelie · #1939, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ayden · #288, 30y
Eadie · #288, 26y
Elia · #288, 28y
Nataniel · #289, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ayden · #288, 30y
Eadie · #288, 26y
Elia · #288, 28y
Dougie · #287, 26y

Aura was ranked #288 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aura and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aura without appearing here.

Aura moved ahead of

Finn Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1639 and #5742.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1809 and #5876.
Jeanette Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4764 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1809 and #5876.
Lene Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4688 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1809 and #5876.

Moved ahead of Aura

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1628 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2705 and #1240.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #936 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #720 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Aura

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aura went from #3142 to #520 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aura went from #3142 to #520 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aura went from #3142 to #520 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aura went from #3142 to #520 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Aura

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aura went from #3142 to #520 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aura went from #3142 to #520 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aura went from #3142 to #520 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aura went from #3142 to #520 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1998 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #288 in Northern Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aura

Aura at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aura across 3 official records

Aura by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aura appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Aura at a glance

Aura across 3 official records

Aura by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aura appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aura

Aura and the names beside it

Aura moved ahead of

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