Aurora

Latin

"dawn"

Aurora Origin and Meaning

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

A Nameberry favorite, 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 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 Popularity

• 31 US 2022
• 8 Nameberry 2023
• 34 Future 2028
• 56 England 2021
• 71 Scotland 2022
• 36 Australia 2022
• 46 New Zealand 2022
• 161 Germany 2016
• 2 Italy 2021
• 91 Spain 2021
• 20 Portugal 2022
• 22 Norway 2022
• 39 Finland 2022
• 33 Switzerland 2022
• 158 Poland 2020
• 39 Slovenia 2022
• 32 Chile 2021
• 41 Croatia 2022
• 48 Canada 2022
• 84 Mexico 2021