Aurora
In 2025 Aurora comes in at #15 nationally, with the curve still pointing up. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 99,113 bearers and counting.
What Aurora carries
Aurora · Latin
“dawn”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Aurora’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Aurora, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Aurora since 1880
Aurora is at its all-time peak right now: #15 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Aurora is most common
Aurora is most common in Wyoming: 2.47% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Vermont (1.64%) and Alaska (1.45%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Aurora
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Emilia
#45 in 2025 · Latin
Oliver
#3 in 2025 · Latin
August
#81 in 2025 · Latin
Cecilia
#108 in 2025 · Latin
Juliette
#110 in 2025 · Latin
Lorenzo
#117 in 2025 · Latin
Emilio
#154 in 2025 · Latin
Luca
#14 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with A · Latin names · all names
About Aurora
Where does Aurora rank right now?
In 2025 Aurora comes in at #15 nationally, with the curve still pointing up. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Aurora mean?
The gloss on record reads “dawn”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Aurora?
The recipe puts Emilia first, then August, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
Get Aurora’s free Name Kit
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