Aurora
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin aur6éra ‘dawn’, also used in the classical period as the name of the personified goddess of the dawn
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔɹɔɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aurora is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 211
- NONorway1 in 904
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- 1 in 211 (inferred from the name graph)
66,923 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled אורורה in IT Italy.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin aur6éra ‘dawn’, also used in the classical period as the name of the personified goddess of the dawn. It was not used as a given name in the postclassical or medieval period, but is a reinvention of the Renaissance, and has generally been bestowed as a learned equivalent of Dawn. 18
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aurora, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aurora counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 66,923 | 1 in 5K | 67K | Aurora | 346 |
| ES Spain | 42,269 | 1 in 1.2K | 44K | Aurora | 178 |
| IT Italy | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 4.3K | אורורה | 101 |
| BR Brazil | 38,929 | 1 in 5.4K | 39K | Aurora | 113 |
| FI Finland | 26,356 | 1 in 211 | 30K | — | 22 |
| SE Sweden | 6,964 | 1 in 1.5K | 7K | — | 28 |
| NO Norway | 6,051 | 1 in 904 | 21K | — | 31 |
| AL Albania | 2,211 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.2K | — | — |
66,923 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aurora is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Aurora är ett latinskt namn med betydelsen ’morgonrodnad’. Det är också namn på en romersk gudinna, motsvarande den grekiska Eos. I den rikssvenska almanackan 3 juli och i den finlandssvenska 10 mars.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, Roman dawn goddess; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Latin aurora, « aurore, lever du jour »; nom chrétien diffusé par le culte de sainte Aurore.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Latin/Greek: dawn; goddess of the dawn
as a nameAfrican Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aurora Pavlovna Demidovab. 1873UARussian noblewoman (1873–1904)
- Aurora Mirandab. 1915BRBrazilian entertainer (1915–2005)
- Matilde Camusb. 1919ESnot in their usual nameSpanish poet (1919–2012)
- Aurora Quattrocchib. 1943ITItalian actress
- Lucia Sardob. 1952ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress
- Aurora Ruffinob. 1989ITItalian actress
- Aurora Perrineaub. 1994USAmerican actress
- Aurorab. 1996NONorwegian singer and songwriter
- Anny Aurorab. 1996DEGerman pornographic actress
- Aurora Gallib. 1996ITItalian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 125 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 67K | #753 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 44K | #104 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 42K | #194 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 39K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39K | #685 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30K | #68 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 26K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 22K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 21K | #213 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 20K | #1,397 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7K | #505 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Aurora?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔɹɔɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Aurora mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin aur6éra ‘dawn’, also used in the classical period as the name of the personified goddess of the dawn. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Aurora have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 67 thousand people named Aurora, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aurora.
- Where is Aurora most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aurora is densest in Finland — about 1 in 211 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aurora?
- In the United States, the national register counted 66,923 people named Aurora in 2020, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/auroraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aurora”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.