Auer

Borrowed from German Auer, topographic surname from several places with the name Au, Aue, all from the noun Aue (“floodplain, stream”).

• (UK) enPR: owʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊə(ɹ)/
• (US, Canada) enPR: owr, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊɚ/
• Homophones: hour, our

Auer (countable and uncountable, plural Auers)

1. A surname from German.
2. A surname from Finnish.
3. A municipality in the autonomous province of South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Italian spelling: Ora.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Auer is the 9125^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3578 individuals. Auer is most common among White (94.94%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Auer”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 69.

• eaur, urea

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯ɛr]

Auer m anim (female equivalent Auerová)

1. a male surname from German

• “Auer”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
• Matúšová, Jana (2015) Německá vlastní jména v češtině [German proper nouns in Czech] (in Czech), Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, →ISBN, page 26

< auer

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.er/, [ˈɑ̝u̯.e̞r]
• Rhymes: -ɑuer
• Syllabification^(key): Au‧er
• Hyphenation^(key): Au‧er

Auer

1. a Finnish surname

• Auer is the 2514^th (tied with 9 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 319 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From Middle High German ūre, from Old French ore, eure, from Latin hōra.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑʊ̯.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʊɐ

Auer f (plural Aueren)

1. clock, watch

   Eise Monni huet menger Schwëster a mir zwou deier Auere kaf.

   Our oncle bought my sister and me two expensive watches.

2. (invariable) o'clock

   Ëm siwen Auer wollt en do sinn.

   He wanted to be here at seven o'clock.

3. (archaic) synonym of Stonn (“hour”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈauer]

Auer m pers (female equivalent Auerová)

1. a male surname

• “Auer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025