# Aurora (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aurora/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /əˈɹɔɹ.ə/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | Rory, Rori |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 99,209 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 96 / 99,113 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10,064, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Aurōra. The Philippine placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,729 | 183 |
| 2012 | 1,905 | 166 |
| 2013 | 2,133 | 146 |
| 2014 | 2,752 | 116 |
| 2015 | 3,654 | 78 |
| 2016 | 4,006 | 66 |
| 2017 | 4,615 | 51 |
| 2018 | 4,830 | 44 |
| 2019 | 5,006 | 39 |
| 2020 | 5,256 | 36 |
| 2021 | 5,528 | 35 |
| 2022 | 6,003 | 31 |
| 2023 | 6,081 | 22 |
| 2024 | 6,955 | 16 |
| 2025 | 7,065 | 15 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 7 | 3,438 |
| 1927 | 9 | 2,927 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,000 |
| 1930 | 6 | 3,622 |
| 1931 | 6 | 3,412 |
| 1935 | 5 | 3,681 |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,450 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,346 |
| 2019 | 7 | 9,854 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,736 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9,821 |
| 2022 | 6 | 10,998 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,428 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,013 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,222 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 111 | 404 |
| 2012 | 140 | 345 |
| 2013 | 187 | 257 |
| 2014 | 268 | 200 |
| 2015 | 417 | 136 |
| 2016 | 552 | 105 |
| 2017 | 665 | 80 |
| 2018 | 752 | 69 |
| 2019 | 777 | 70 |
| 2020 | 781 | 64 |
| 2021 | 910 | 56 |
| 2022 | 972 | 49 |
| 2023 | 964 | 49 |
| 2024 | 1,002 | 43 |
| 2025 | 1,030 | 39 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Aurora
- Chinese: 奧羅拉 /奥罗拉, 歐若拉 /欧若拉
- Finnish: Aurora
- French: Aurore
- Hungarian: Auróra
- Italian: Aurora
- Japanese: オーロラ, オーロール, アウローラ, アウロラ
- Korean: 오로라, 아우로라
- Norwegian: Aurora
- Polish: Aurora
- Portuguese: Aurora
- Romanian: Aurora
- Russian: Авро́ра
- Spanish: Aurora
- Swedish: Aurora
- Bulgarian: Авро́ра
- Dutch: Aurora
- German: Aurora
- Latin: Aurōra

## People named Aurora

- Aurora Mardiganian, American actress (1901-1994)
- Aurora Perrineau, American actress
- Aurora Miranda, Brazilian entertainer (1915–2005)
- Aurora Dan, fencer
- Aurora Venturini, Argentine writer
- Aurora Pijuan, Filipino model
- Aurora Jolie, American actress and pornographic actress
- Aurora Karamzina, Finnish-Swedish philanthropist (1808–1902)
- Aurora Castillo, American environmentalist
- Aurora Mira, Chilean painter (1863-1939)
- Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.