Aurora
99% girls · 1% boys
About Aurora
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.
Aurora is also given to boys, where it ranks #12222 in the US.
Pronounced aw-ROR-ah.
As of October 2026, Aurora ranked #15 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #31.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #116 | 2,751 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #78 | 3,651 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #66 | 4,005 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #51 | 4,614 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #44 | 4,828 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #39 | 5,002 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #35 | 5,252 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #35 | 5,525 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #31 | 5,998 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #22 | 6,080 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #16 | 6,917 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #15 | 7,065 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Aurora on lists
Famous Auroras
- Aurora AksnesGirl
Norwegian singer
- Aurora Antonia AragónGirl
viuda de Quezón, First Lady of the Philippines as wife of President Luis Quezón
- Aurora "Rory" BlockGirl
American blues guitarist and singer
- Aurora BrowneGirl
Canadian actress and comedian
- Aurora CáceresGirl
Peruvian,European writer of the "modernismo" literary movement
- Aurora CotopGirl
Canadian figure skater
- Aurora ClavelGirl
Mexican actress
- Aurora BautistaGirl
Spanish actress
- Aurora CunhaGirl
Portuguese long,distance runner
- Aurora Karamzina nee StjernvallGirl
Finnish,Swede philanthropist and noblewoman
- Aurora KönigsmarckGirl
mistress of King Augustus the Strong of Poland
- Aurora Wilhelmina KoskullGirl
Swedish lady,in,waiting, singer and salonist/socialite
- Aurora Levins MoralesGirl
Puerto Rican writer and poet
- Aurora LjungstedtGirl
Swedish horror novelist
- Aurora 'Rory' MartínezGirl
Mexican director
- Aurora NilssonGirl
Swedish writer
- Aurora PijuanGirl
1970 Miss International Beauty Pageant
- Aurora Reyes FloresGirl
Mexican painter
- Aurora RoblesGirl
Mexican supermodel
- Aurora VenturiniGirl
Argentine writer
- Aurora PerrineauGirl
American actress, daughter of actor Harold Perrineau and model Brittany Perrineau
- Aurora Jessop (b. 1992)Girl
daughter of reality TV personality Robyn Brown of TV's "Sister Wives" and David Jessop
- Aurora Sophie Ramazzotti (b. 1996)Girl
daughter of singer Eros Ramazzotti and model/TV personality Michelle Hunziker
- Aurora Rose Levesque (b. 2006)Girl
daughter of professional wrestlers Paul Michael "Triple H" Levesque and Stephanie McMahon
Aurora in pop culture
- AuroraGirl
Roman goddess of the dawn
- Aurora aka Briar RoseGirl
princess in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" and "Maleficent"
- "Aurora LeighGirl
" poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and its main character
- Aurora SinistraGirl
character in the Harry Potter series
- Aurora (born JeanneGirl
Marie Beaubier), character in Marvel Comics
- Aurora Ponce de LeonGirl
main character on telenovela "Aurora"
- Aurora "Roe" TeagardenGirl
main character in mystery novels by Charlaine Harris
- Aurora "Auri" JieGirl
Lin O'Malley, main character in The Aurora Cycle series
- Aurora GreenwayGirl
main character in movie "Terms of Endearment"
- Aurora ThymaGirl
character in "After London" (1885) by Richard Jefferies
- AuroraGirl
talking telescope on animated series "Doc McStuffins"
- AuroraGirl
main character in video game "Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy"
- Aurora de MartelGirl
character on TV series "The Originals"
- AuroraGirl
character in musical "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
- Aurora LaneGirl
character from the movie "Passengers"
- Aurora LuftGirl
character from the TV series "X Company"
- "AuroraGirl
" song by Bjork
- "AuroraGirl
" song by Foo Fighters
- AuroraGirl
character in video game "Paragon"
- AuroraGirl
mother of the main character in Rebecca Stead's "First Light"
- AuroraGirl
a penguin villager from Animal Crossing