Given name & surname
Aune
“one who is pure; chaste”
Aune is a form of Agnes. One Greek interpretation is “one who is pure; chaste.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Aune is a form of Agnes. One Greek interpretation is “one who is pure; chaste.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Aune is a form of Agnes. An origin associated with Agnes is Greek.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Finnish use, Aune is used as a form of Agnes.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aune through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 312
- 0 boys · 312 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1929. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,800 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aune’s family of names
Aune shares a linguistic root with Agnes. In Finnish usage, Aune has a related form in AUNI. Aune is a form of Agnes.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Aune has relatives in 6 languages.
6 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aune
- Aune HeggebøNorwegian footballerborn 2001
- Anu KaipainenFinnish writer and politician1933–2009
- Aune KrohnFinnish writer and translator1881–1967
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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