Auri
Feminine · “gold”
Auri is given to both — 939 girls and 58 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Auri is short, golden and slightly unsettled — it can be read as the Latin word for gold, as a clipping of Aurora, or as a modern name with no parent at all. All three readings are in use.
How old is the name Auri?
Auri first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Auri is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Auri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Auri most popular?
Auri peaked in 2020, reaching #2078 nationally. Today it ranks #3211, 1,133 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
From aurum to Auri
The story of Auri
Latin had two neighboring golden words — aurum for the metal and aurora for the dawn — and both gave Europe a long list of names. Aurelia and Aurelio have been in use since Rome; Aurora arrived through poetry and, later, through a fairy tale. Auri appears in modern records as a short form of either and, increasingly, on its own, helped by the current preference for four-letter girls' names ending in a vowel.
Meaningscholars disagree
gold
The Latin aurum, gold, gives Aurelia, Aurelio and the chemical symbol for the metal, and Auri is often read on that line. It is also used as a short form of Aurora, which is the Latin word for dawn and a different root entirely. Neither is documented as the source of the standalone name.
How the name formed
- aurum
- Auri
Related forms: Aurora · Aurelia · Auri
Pronouncing Auri
OR-ee
Two syllables, first stressed. Some families say OW-ree, closer to Latin, and both are used.
Nicknames for Auri
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1981
- Most girls named
- 202088 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2078reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- +2.1%49 in 2025, from 48
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Auri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aurora in Italian — related form
- Aurelia in Latin — related form
- Auri in Finnish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Auris among us
people named Auri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 32,801 born in 2025 was named Auri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Auri
- #3211
- Auri on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Auri went to 49 girls in 2025, but Aury is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 60, which makes it the 900th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,311 places above the chart.
- Auri49
- Aury11
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,801 for Auri itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Nohemi test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Auri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nohemi climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nohemi's path sketches the road Auri is walking now.
Auri sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Auri is headed
Auri is easing off slowly — about 18% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Auri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Auri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Four letters and two syllables, as easy to write as a name can be.
- Two genuinely old Latin roots stand behind the sound, both of them attractive.
- It works as a short form of Aurora or Aurelia if a longer formal name is wanted later.
- The first vowel is genuinely unsettled between OR and OW.
- Aury, Ori and Auri all appear and none is dominant.
- It is close enough to Aria and Avery to be misheard in a noisy room.
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Frequently asked
- How many Auris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Auri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Auri?
- Auri is the most-used spelling in US records — 49 of the 60 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Aury.
- How popular is the name Auri in 2025?
- Auri ranks #3211 among US girl names in 2025, with 49 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Auri?
- About 1 in every 32,801 US girls born in 2025 was named Auri — 49 in all.
- Will my child share the name Auri with classmates?
- Auri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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