Aurora
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About Aurora
The name Aurora is currently ranked #15 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #15 in 2025. The name is most popular in Wyoming, Alaska, and Alaska. Aurora is occasionally used for boys in 2025.
3 syllables.
As of September 2026, Aurora ranked #15 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #48.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #116 | 2,751 | 1,540 |
| 2015 | #78 | 3,651 | 2,045.3 |
| 2016 | #66 | 4,005 | 2,260.1 |
| 2017 | #51 | 4,614 | 2,672.5 |
| 2018 | #44 | 4,828 | 2,838.2 |
| 2019 | #39 | 5,002 | 2,980.3 |
| 2020 | #35 | 5,252 | 3,248.9 |
| 2021 | #35 | 5,525 | 3,367.1 |
| 2022 | #31 | 5,998 | 3,657 |
| 2023 | #22 | 6,080 | 3,789.1 |
| 2024 | #16 | 6,917 | 4,269.3 |
| 2025 | #15 | 7,065 | 4,395.7 |
World rankings
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Famous Auroras
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Norwegian singer
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viuda de Quezón, First Lady of the Philippines as wife of President Luis Quezón
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American blues guitarist and singer
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Canadian actress and comedian
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Peruvian,European writer of the "modernismo" literary movement
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Canadian figure skater
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Mexican actress
- Aurora Bautista
Spanish actress
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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
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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
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character in video game "Paragon"
- Aurora
mother of the main character in Rebecca Stead's "First Light"
- Aurora
a penguin villager from Animal Crossing
Variations & nicknames
- AuroreFrench
More nicknames
- Rory
- Arie