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.

# 40 in the US

Aurora Rank in US Top 2000

Aurora Popularity

40US2019
3Nameberry2020
70England2019
90Scotland2019
161Germany2016
44New Zealand2020
50Australia2019
42Portugal2020
28Norway2019
2Italy2019
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Famous People Named Aurora

Aurora AksnesNorwegian singer
Aurora Antonia Aragónviuda de Quezón, First Lady of the Philippines as wife of President Luis Quezón
Aurora "Rory" BlockAmerican blues guitarist and singer
Aurora BrowneCanadian actress and comedian
Aurora CáceresPeruvian,European writer of the "modernismo" literary movement
Aurora CotopCanadian figure skater
Aurora ClavelMexican actress
Aurora BautistaSpanish actress
Aurora CunhaPortuguese long,distance runner
Aurora Karamzina nee StjernvallFinnish,Swede philanthropist and noblewoman
Aurora Königsmarckmistress of King Augustus the Strong of Poland

Aurora Wilhelmina KoskullSwedish lady,in,waiting, singer and salonist/socialite
Aurora Levins MoralesPuerto Rican writer and poet
Aurora LjungstedtSwedish horror novelist
Aurora 'Rory' MartínezMexican director
Aurora NilssonSwedish writer
Aurora Pijuan1970 Miss International Beauty Pageant
Aurora Reyes FloresMexican painter
Aurora RoblesMexican supermodel
Aurora VenturiniArgentine writer
Aurora PerrineauAmerican 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

AuroraRoman goddess of the dawn
Aurora aka Briar Roseprincess in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" and "Maleficent"
"Aurora Leigh" poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and its main character
Aurora Sinistracharacter in the Harry Potter series
Aurora (born JeanneMarie Beaubier), character in Marvel Comics
Aurora Ponce de Leonmain character on telenovela "Aurora"
Aurora "Roe" Teagardenmain character in mystery novels by Charlaine Harris
Aurora "Auri" JieLin O'Malley, main character in The Aurora Cycle series
Aurora Greenwaymain character in movie "Terms of Endearment"
Aurora Thymacharacter in "After London" (1885) by Richard Jefferies
Auroratalking telescope on animated series "Doc McStuffins"

Auroramain character in video game "Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy"
Aurora de Martelcharacter on TV series "The Originals"
Auroracharacter in musical "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
Aurora Lanecharacter from the movie "Passengers"
Aurora Luftcharacter from the TV series "X Company"
"Aurora" song by Bjork
"Aurora" song by Foo Fighters
Auroracharacter in video game "Paragon"
Auroramother of the main character in Rebecca Stead's "First Light"
Auroraa penguin villager from Animal Crossing