Aur
loc · Latin script
Meaning: bamboo (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Aur is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 7.7M
- ESSpain≈1 in 8.3M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bamboo
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aur counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 1 | — | 7 |
| FR France | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Aur | 60 |
| US United States | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | listed | — | 14 |
| BR Brazil | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 13M | 61 | — | — |
| ES Spain | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 8.3M | 7 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Aur is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In iba, generic for kinds of large bamboo, _payan_, esp. _Gigantochloa scortechinii_ and _Bambusa wrayi_
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ksx, slender bamboo with many ceremonial uses ([Barnes 1974:152](Source#cldf:barnes1974))
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In gmq-gut, gravel bank, gravel, rough sand, dry gravel soil, pebble in fields
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of Arch User Repository.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a mix between gravel, coarse sand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Constantin Aurb. 1963RORomanian rally driver
- Sandu AurRORomanian politician from Boghești, Vrancea County
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aur mean, and where does it come from?
- bamboo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Aur?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Aur in Belgium, more than in any other country we hold. After it come France, United States, Brazil and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Aur?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,400 people in Belgium have Aur as their first given name, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Aur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aurThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aur” — ranked 165307th in Belgium (Familienaam.be). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.