Aune

Borrowed from Finnish Aune.

Aune

1. a female given name

• Age, Agnes, Agne, Ines, Agneta, Neta

Spoken form, attested since 17th century, of Latin Agnes, from Ancient Greek Ἁγνή (Hagnḗ, “pure, chaste”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯ne/, [ˈɑ̝u̯ne̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑune
• Syllabification^(key): Au‧ne

Aune

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Agnes
   • 1919, Maila Talvio, “Kurjet”, in Kootut teokset VIII, WSOY, published 1955, page 144:

     Eino-Ilmari tuhri nopeasti näkymättömiin erään nimen, jonka hän oli kirjoittanut imupaperiin edessään. Saattoiko sen vielä lukea? Aune . . . Aune . . . Aune: paras vetää mustia viivoja yli koko tuon suloisen nimen. Aune oli kuin valoa koko tyttö, hyvä ja puhdas.

     Eino-Ilmari hastily rubbed off a name that he had scribbled on the blotting paper in front of him. Was it still egible? Aune . . . Aune . . . Aune: it's best to draw lines through that entire sweet name. Aune' was all light, like the girl, good and pure.

• Aunetta, Auni, Iines

• Aune is the 140^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,233 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,970 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Aune

1. a surname