Aurora

Latin

"dawn"

Aurora Origin and Meaning

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

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 has consistently been on the popularity list since the nineteenth century, but is rising faster than ever and looks to climb even further. Aurora is a very popular girls’ name on Nameberry.

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.

Aurora Popularity

• 36 US 2020
• 12 Nameberry 2021
• 34 Future 2028
• 64 England 2020
• 90 Scotland 2020
• 53 Australia 2020
• 44 New Zealand 2020
• 161 Germany 2016
• 2 Italy 2019
• 100 Spain 2020
• 42 Portugal 2020
• 31 Norway 2020
• 37 Finland 2020
• 35 Switzerland 2020
• 158 Poland 2020
• 61 Slovenia 2019