Entry № 1060 · Greek origin

Aura Aura — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OR-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Goddess of the breeze"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of the breeze".

Aura is the Greek personification of the breeze — the cool, fresh air of morning.

Light and airy, the name still carries its old meaning in everyday English.

Goddess of the breeze — a name from Greek myth.

The name in its native script.

Aura
Transliteration
Aura
Pronunciation
/ ˈɔː.ɾa /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aura stands.

Aura does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Auras before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Aura.

The number behind Aura.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aura reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.