Girl's name
Aurora
Say it uh-ROR-uh
Latin origin dawn, sunrise
3 syllables
Where Aurora is loved, common and rare
Loved in Italy. Common across Switzerland, Norway, Ontario and 22 more places. Rare in Austria, the Netherlands, Quebec and three more places.
1 in 201 girls born in Scotland in 2025
Italy 2ndSwitzerland 11thNorway 14th
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Every place
In 32 of the 40 official lists, among them Italy (2nd), Switzerland (11th) and Norway (14th).
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| Place | Rank | Girls | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 2nd 2024 | 4,265 | 1 in 42 |
| Switzerland | 11th 2025 | 192 | 1 in 177 |
| Norway | 14th 2025 | 238 | 1 in 92 |
| South Australia state | 22nd 2025 | 49 | rank only |
| Queensland state | 23rd 2025 | 144 | rank only |
| Ontario province | 24th 2024 | 256 | about 1 in 213 |
| British Columbia province | 31st 2023 | 62 | about 1 in 193 |
| New Zealand | 35th 2025 | 80 | rank only |
| England and Wales | 39th 2025 | 1,030 | 1 in 246 |
| Victoria state | 41st 2025 | 137 | rank only |
| New South Wales state | 42nd 2025 | 151 | rank only |
| Slovenia | 44th 2025 | 41 | about 1 in 161 |
| Scotland | 45th 2025 | 89 | 1 in 201 |
| Munich city | 51st 2025 | 24 | about 1 in 175 |
| Spain | 69th 2024 | 375 | rank only |
| Catalonia region | 70th 2025 | 63 | 1 in 306 |
| Ireland | 76th 2025 | 65 | 1 in 325 |
| Berlin city | 85th 2023 | 37 | about 1 in 392 |
| Northern Ireland | 87th 2025 | 24 | 1 in 304 |
| Sweden | 94th 2025 | 111 | about 1 in 362 |
| Poland | 99th 2025 | 192 | 1 in 624 |
| Austria | 108th 2025 | 61 | 1 in 586 |
| The Netherlands | 211th 2025 | 70 | about 1 in 872 |
| Quebec province | 297th 2025 | 18 | about 1 in 1,445 |
| Cologne city | 308th 2023 | 3 | about 1 in 2,048 |
| France | 816th 2025 | 45 | 1 in 6,373 |
| Estonia | 14th 2025 | 43 | rank only |
| Finland | 26th 2025 | 135 | rank only |
| Croatia | 44th 2025 | 99 | rank only |
| Leipzig city | 95th 2025 | 6 | about 1 in 437 |
| Bonn city | 99th 2025 | 6 | about 1 in 502 |
| Rostock city | 166th 2025 | 1 | about 1 in 985 |
Rare, below the listed names: Hungary and Israel.
Not in a short top list, so no figure: Nova Scotia (top 21), Denmark (top 50), Iceland (top 10), Moscow (top 61), Turkey (top 30) and Argentina (top 20).
Germany publishes no national statistics on first names. German figures here are city lists (Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Leipzig, Rostock), never the country.
Sources: ISTAT, Contanomi (Italy); Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) / Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS) (Switzerland); Statistics Norway (SSB) (Norway); SA Attorney-General's Department, Births, Deaths and Marriages (data.sa.gov.au) (South Australia); Queensland Registry of BDM (Qld Open Data Portal) (Queensland); Ontario Office of the Registrar General (Ontario Data Catalogue) (Ontario); BC Vital Statistics Agency (BC Data Catalogue) (British Columbia); Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), SmartStart (New Zealand); Office for National Statistics (England and Wales); Registry of BDM Victoria (DataVic) (Victoria); NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages (Data.NSW) (New South Wales); Statistični urad Republike Slovenije (SURS), SiStat (Slovenia); National Records of Scotland (Scotland); Landeshauptstadt München, Statistisches Amt (opendata.muenchen.de) (Munich); INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadística) (Spain); Idescat (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya) (Catalonia); Central Statistics Office (CSO) (Ireland); BerlinOnline GmbH; Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO) / Standesämter (Berlin); NISRA (Northern Ireland); Skatteverket (Swedish Tax Agency) (Sweden); Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, rejestr PESEL (dane.gov.pl) (Poland); Statistik Austria (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1) (Austria); Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) (the Netherlands); Retraite Québec (Banque de prénoms, Données Québec) (Quebec); Stadt Köln, Standesamt (offenedaten-koeln.de) (Cologne); INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (France); Siseministeerium (rahvastikuregister) (Estonia); Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV) (Finland); Ministarstvo pravosuđa, uprave i digitalne transformacije (Matica rođenih) (Croatia); Stadt Leipzig, Standesamt (opendata.leipzig.de) (Leipzig); Bundesstadt Bonn, Standesamt (opendata.bonn.de) (Bonn); Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock (opendata-hro.de) (Rostock). How we count, and every source
About the name
Aurora comes straight from Latin aurōra, 'dawn, sunrise', and in Roman mythology Aurora is the goddess of the dawn.
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Three syllables, uh-ROR-uh, give it an open, flowing sound. Aura and Aurore are related forms, and Auróra is an accented spelling. Dawn is its plain English counterpart.
Aurora is the second most popular girls' name in Italy and ranks high in Switzerland and Norway, as well as in Queensland, South Australia and Ontario. It is rising in 21 of the places where it is recorded and falling in just one, with a peak in the Ontario and British Columbia records in 2024. Few names are gaining ground as widely.
Meaning, origin, pronunciation
- Pronounced
- uh-ROR-uh, 3 syllables
- Meaning
dawn, sunrise
- Origin
- Latin
- Other spellings
- Aura
- Aurore
- Goizane
- Dawn
Counted together here: Auróra.
Etymology
Inherited from Latin Aurōra, from aurōra (“dawn, sunrise”).
From the Wiktionary entry, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened.
Over time
Over five years: rising in 21 of 28 regions, falling in 1.
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Rank in each place since 1996; higher on the chart is more popular.
Ten years of ranks
Her rank each year, English-speaking regions first. A blank means no published rank for her that year.
| Region | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 105 | 80 | 69 | 70 | 64 | 56 | 49 | 49 | 43 | 39 |
| Scotland | 142 | 96 | 95 | 90 | 90 | 87 | 71 | 62 | 55 | 45 |
| Northern Ireland | 251 | 150 | 195 | 167 | 178 | 152 | 147 | 91 | 93 | 87 |
| Ireland | 316 | 241 | 155 | 180 | 178 | 165 | 140 | 130 | 98 | 76 |
| Ontario | 68 | 50 | 54 | 57 | 43 | 41 | 38 | 35 | 24 | |
| British Columbia | 43 | 33 | 44 | 42 | 45 | 31 | 48 | 31 | ||
| Nova Scotia | 17 | |||||||||
| New South Wales | 79 | 47 | 45 | 52 | 46 | 35 | 29 | 50 | 37 | 42 |
| Victoria | 75 | 71 | 78 | 68 | 69 | 61 | 58 | 51 | 47 | 41 |
| Queensland | 54 | 45 | 39 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 22 | 36 | 33 | 23 |
| South Australia | 130 | 78 | 65 | 49 | 63 | 44 | 36 | 57 | 58 | 22 |
| New Zealand | 76 | 64 | 49 | 60 | 43 | 42 | 46 | 42 | 44 | 35 |
| Quebec | 730 | 485 | 359 | 472 | 526 | 404 | 351 | 268 | 287 | 297 |
| France | 1716 | 1467 | 1439 | 925 | 989 | 1006 | 829 | 1034 | 769 | 816 |
| The Netherlands | 334 | 399 | 307 | 269 | 352 | 266 | 213 | 265 | 211 | |
| Austria | 181 | 166 | 146 | 159 | 163 | 136 | 102 | 105 | 105 | 108 |
| Switzerland | 52 | 61 | 40 | 50 | 35 | 37 | 33 | 26 | 20 | 11 |
| Berlin | 116 | 156 | 160 | 158 | 139 | 154 | 107 | 85 | ||
| Munich | 130 | 107 | 75 | 126 | 94 | 124 | 96 | 72 | 194 | 51 |
| Cologne | 155 | 219 | 145 | 80 | 112 | 132 | 111 | 308 | ||
| Bonn | 143 | 134 | 226 | 221 | 237 | 264 | 139 | 96 | 98 | 99 |
| Leipzig | 192 | 124 | 148 | 243 | 116 | 132 | 186 | 85 | 178 | 95 |
| Rostock | 283 | 228 | 134 | 97 | 202 | 105 | 158 | 166 | ||
| Norway | 15 | 17 | 21 | 21 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 21 | 14 |
| Sweden | 147 | 137 | 114 | 123 | 112 | 114 | 103 | 90 | 109 | 94 |
| Finland | 41 | 39 | 35 | 27 | 26 | |||||
| Iceland | 99 | 161 | ||||||||
| Spain | 100 | 91 | 96 | 81 | 69 | |||||
| Catalonia | 157 | 199 | 162 | 164 | 141 | 178 | 146 | 89 | 101 | 70 |
| Italy | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Poland | 208 | 181 | 188 | 173 | 158 | 155 | 137 | 120 | 106 | 99 |
| Hungary | 98 | |||||||||
| Slovenia | 76 | 92 | 93 | 57 | 60 | 52 | 38 | 38 | 40 | 44 |
| Estonia | 24 | 14 | ||||||||
| Croatia | 47 | 47 | 44 |
England and Wales, 1996 to 2025
| Year | Rank | Girls | per 100,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | 1,030 | 406.7 |
| 2024 | 43 | 1,002 | 388.4 |
| 2023 | 49 | 964 | 375.7 |
| 2022 | 49 | 972 | 368.9 |
| 2021 | 56 | 910 | 332.1 |
| 2020 | 64 | 781 | 291.0 |
| 2019 | 70 | 777 | 277.4 |
| 2018 | 69 | 752 | 260.9 |
| 2017 | 80 | 665 | 222.3 |
| 2016 | 105 | 552 | 179.7 |
| 2015 | 136 | 417 | 135.4 |
| 2014 | 200 | 268 | 87.4 |
| 2013 | 257 | 187 | 60.6 |
| 2012 | 345 | 140 | 43.5 |
| 2011 | 404 | 111 | 34.5 |
| 2010 | 549 | 73 | 22.7 |
| 2009 | 514 | 78 | 24.9 |
| 2008 | 639 | 58 | 18.4 |
| 2007 | 645 | 54 | 17.6 |
| 2006 | 796 | 38 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 769 | 37 | 12.8 |
| 2004 | 1043 | 23 | 8.0 |
| 2003 | 771 | 35 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 962 | 23 | 8.6 |
| 2001 | 936 | 23 | 8.6 |
| 2000 | 969 | 22 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 928 | 23 | 8.2 |
| 1998 | 1165 | 17 | 5.9 |
| 1997 | 1176 | 16 | 5.5 |
| 1996 | 1168 | 16 | 5.4 |
Sources: Office for National Statistics (1996-2025), OGL v3.
Ontario and British Columbia since 1925
Half of the babies named Aurora in Ontario and British Columbia since 1925 were born in or after 2017. First recorded in 1969. Her peak year there: 2024, at 470.0 per 100,000 girls.
Babies named Aurora per 100,000 girls born in Ontario and British Columbia, by five-year period. Her 2024 peak is averaged into its five-year period, so the line sits below it.
Sources: Ontario Office of the Registrar General (Ontario Data Catalogue) (1917-2024), OGL-Ontario; BC Vital Statistics Agency (BC Data Catalogue) (1924-2023), OGL-BC.
Sister names for Aurora
1 in 330 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Aurora.
1 in 132 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Aurora.
1 in 228 in Northern Ireland
Rose and fell with Aurora.
1 in 728 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Aurora.
1 in 271 in Ireland
1 in 124 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Aurora.
1 in 67 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Aurora.
1 in 109 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Aurora.
1 in 141 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Aurora. Same first letter as Aurora.
Similar forms, not dealt separately: Ariana.
1 in 471 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Aurora.
Middle names for Aurora
1 in 107 in Northern Ireland
Aurora Charlotte
3-2 beats · initials AC
Changes the beat after Aurora: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 86 in Ireland
Aurora Sophie
3-2 beats · initials AS
Changes the beat after Aurora: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 57 in Northern Ireland
Aurora Grace
3-1 beats · initials AG
Changes the beat after Aurora: 3 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 71 in Scotland
Aurora Olivia
3-4 beats · initials AO · Aurora slides into Olivia: vowel meets vowel.
Changes the beat after Aurora: 3 syllables, then 4 syllables. Aurora slides into Olivia: vowel meets vowel.
1 in 102 in Ireland
Aurora Mia
3-2 beats · initials AM
Changes the beat after Aurora: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 132 in Northern Ireland
Aurora Ruby
3-2 beats · initials AR
Changes the beat after Aurora: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 214 in Northern Ireland
Aurora Rose
3-1 beats · initials AR
Changes the beat after Aurora: 3 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 240 in Ireland
Aurora Leah
3-2 beats · initials AL
Changes the beat after Aurora: 3 syllables, then 2 syllables.
Same style as Aurora
Names whose popularity rose and fell with hers across regions and decades.
1 in 141 in Scotland
94% alike: moves with Aurora across countries and decades.
1 in 1,025 in England and Wales
94% alike: moves with Aurora across countries and decades.
1 in 189 in Ireland
93% alike: moves with Aurora across countries and decades.
1 in 208 in Northern Ireland
93% alike: moves with Aurora across countries and decades.
1 in 102 in Ireland
93% alike: moves with Aurora across countries and decades.
1 in 188 in Scotland
93% alike: moves with Aurora across countries and decades.
1 in 88 in Scotland
93% alike: moves with Aurora across countries and decades.
1 in 146 in Northern Ireland
92% alike: moves with Aurora across countries and decades.
Famous people named Aurora
Aurora, Aurora Mardiganian, Aurora Galli, Aurora Perrineau, Aurora Dan, Aurora Miranda, Aurora Quezon and Aurora Bautista.
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Icelandic singer ( born June 16 1996)
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American actress (1901-1994)
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Italian footballer born 1996
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American actress born 1994
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Fencer born 1955
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Brazilian entertainer (1915–2005)
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Former First Lady of the Philippines (1935–1944) 1888 to 1949
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Spanish actress (1925-2012) 1922 to 2012
People: Wikidata (CC0), linked to Wikipedia in this page's language when an article exists.
Questions about Aurora
5 questions, on how popular she is, what it means, how to say it, whether she is rising and sister names.
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How popular is Aurora?
Her best rank is No. 2 in Italy in 2024, about 1 in 42 girls. She is in the published lists of 32 of our 40 regions.
What does Aurora mean?
Wiktionary glosses Aurora as "dawn, sunrise".
How do you pronounce Aurora?
uh-ROR-uh, with 3 syllables.
Is Aurora getting more popular?
Over five years: rising in 21 of 28 regions, falling in 1.
Which sister names go with Aurora?
The deck's top five sisters for Aurora: Luna, Maya, Eva, Stella and Emilia. Each is scored on style, era, popularity and origin, with sound clashes flagged.