The Aurunci are an Italic population which live in southern Italy from around the 1st millennium BCE.

Of Indo-European origin, their language belongs to the Oscan group.

The Auruncan territory extends south from that of the Volsci, in the area of Roccamonfina, between the Liri and the Volturno rivers.The Aurunci are often confused with the Ausones, who however live in different cities nearer to the Tyrrhenian coast.The Roman sources describe them as an unevolved population, which preferred to live in defensive villages over the tops of the hills.

The Aurunci were allied with the Latin colony of Pomezia, attacked by the Romans in the 6th century BC.

the Romans subjected them only after the Samnite Wars (313 BCE.The Aurunci mountains and city of Sessa Aurunca bears their name.