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Aurora

Latin
"dawn"
Sophie Kihm
By Sophie Kihm
Updated Mon Jul 14 2025

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. Or if that's not her vibe, the strong R sounds and the nickname Rory lend it plenty of spark and toughness.

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.

# 16 in the US

Aurora Rank in US Top 1000

# 59 on Nameberry

Aurora Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Aurora

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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

The name 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

International Variations of the name Aurora

  • Aurore
    French

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