Aurora

Latin

"dawn"

Aurora Origin and Meaning

The name Aurora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn".

The goddess name Aurora has consistently been on the US popularity list since the nineteenth century, but has really taken off in the past 30 years. Aurora also enjoys remarkable international popularity, ranking in the Top 100 throughout the English-speaking world as well as in Italy, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, and several other European and Latin American countries.

Aurora is the name of the Roman goddess of sunrise, whose tears turned into the morning dew. She was said to renew herself by traveling from East to West across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun each dawn. Aurora is also associated with the scientific term for the Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis.

The radiant Aurora, also the name of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, would be sure to make any little girl feel like a princess. Aurora Leigh is the name of an epic poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Greenway was the moving Shirley MacLaine character in Terms of Endearment.

An Aurora nickname possibility with a totally different feel: Rory. Read more about Aurora and other Disney Princess Names in our featured blog.

Aurora Rank in US Top 1000

# 22 in the US

Aurora Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 14 on Nameberry

Aurora Popularity

• 22 US 2023
• 14 Nameberry 2024
• 38 Canada 2023
• 34 Future 2028
• 49 England 2022
• 62 Scotland 2023
• 44 Australia 2023
• 42 New Zealand 2023
• 161 Germany 2016
• 2 Italy 2022
• 96 Spain 2022
• 20 Portugal 2022
• 84 Mexico 2021
• 13 Brazil 2023
• 20 Norway 2023
• 35 Finland 2023
• 26 Switzerland 2023
• 158 Poland 2020
• 38 Slovenia 2023
• 32 Chile 2021
• 47 Croatia 2023

20 Names Similar to Aurora

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Aurora.

• Aurelia
• Luna
• Anastasia
• Aria
• Arabella
• Alice
• Genevieve
• Athena
• Adelaide
• Amelia
• Charlotte
• Iris
• Ivy
• Evangeline
• Ophelia
• Cordelia
• Andromeda
• Cora
• Delilah
• Violet

Famous People Named Aurora

• Aurora Aksnes Norwegian singer
• Aurora Antonia Aragón viuda de Quezón, First Lady of the Philippines as wife of President Luis Quezón
• Aurora "Rory" Block American blues guitarist and singer
• Aurora Browne Canadian actress and comedian
• Aurora Cáceres Peruvian,European writer of the "modernismo" literary movement
• Aurora Cotop Canadian figure skater
• Aurora Clavel Mexican actress
• Aurora Bautista Spanish actress
• Aurora Cunha Portuguese long,distance runner
• Aurora Karamzina nee Stjernvall Finnish,Swede philanthropist and noblewoman
• Aurora Königsmarck mistress of King Augustus the Strong of Poland
• Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull Swedish lady,in,waiting, singer and salonist/socialite
• Aurora Levins Morales Puerto Rican writer and poet
• Aurora Ljungstedt Swedish horror novelist
• Aurora 'Rory' Martínez Mexican director
• Aurora Nilsson Swedish writer
• Aurora Pijuan 1970 Miss International Beauty Pageant
• Aurora Reyes Flores Mexican painter
• Aurora Robles Mexican supermodel
• Aurora Venturini Argentine writer
• Aurora Perrineau American actress, daughter of actor Harold Perrineau and model Brittany Perrineau
• Aurora Jessop (b. 1992) daughter of reality TV personality Robyn Brown of TV's "Sister Wives" and David Jessop
• Aurora Sophie Ramazzotti (b. 1996) daughter of singer Eros Ramazzotti and model/TV personality Michelle Hunziker
• Aurora Rose Levesque (b. 2006) daughter of professional wrestlers Paul Michael "Triple H" Levesque and Stephanie McMahon

Aurora in Pop Culture

• Aurora Roman goddess of the dawn
• Aurora aka Briar Rose princess in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" and "Maleficent"
• "Aurora Leigh " poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and its main character
• Aurora Sinistra character in the Harry Potter series
• Aurora (born Jeanne Marie Beaubier), character in Marvel Comics
• Aurora Ponce de Leon main character on telenovela "Aurora"
• Aurora "Roe" Teagarden main character in mystery novels by Charlaine Harris
• Aurora "Auri" Jie Lin O'Malley, main character in The Aurora Cycle series
• Aurora Greenway main character in movie "Terms of Endearment"
• Aurora Thyma character in "After London" (1885) by Richard Jefferies
• Aurora talking telescope on animated series "Doc McStuffins"
• Aurora main character in video game "Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy"
• Aurora de Martel character on TV series "The Originals"
• Aurora character in musical "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
• Aurora Lane character from the movie "Passengers"
• Aurora Luft character from the TV series "X Company"
• "Aurora " song by Bjork
• "Aurora " song by Foo Fighters
• Aurora character in video game "Paragon"
• Aurora mother of the main character in Rebecca Stead's "First Light"
• Aurora a penguin villager from Animal Crossing