Entry № 1068 · Latin origin

Aurea Aurea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OW-reh-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Golden (Roman virgin-martyr)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "golden (roman virgin-martyr)".

Aurea is the Latin feminine of aureus (golden). Saint Aurea of Ostia (d. 270) was the Roman virgin-martyr drowned with a stone tied around her neck under Emperor Aurelian — patron saint of Ostia.

Golden (Roman virgin-martyr) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Aurea
Transliteration
Aurea
Pronunciation
/ ˈɔː.ri.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aurea stands.

Aurea 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.

Aureas before her.

Real people
Saint Aurea of Ostia
Roman virgin-martyr.
d. 270
Saint Aurea of San Millán
Spanish hermit-saint.
1043 – 1070
In fiction
Aurea
Subject of Berceo's poem.
13th c.

Names connected to Aurea.

The number behind Aurea.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aurea reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.