Aurora

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Aurora boys named Aurora

By the numbers

Total US births

99,209

Estimated living today

90,000

Median age today

7

Peak year

2025

Best rank

15th

Rank in 2025

15th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

99,113 / 96

How old the living Auroras are

born that year still alive today

Of the 99,209 babies given the name since 1880, about 90,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 71,000 of them are children and 3,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Auroras

• AURORA (born 1996)Norwegian singer and songwriter
• Aurora Snow (born 1981)American journalist, pornographic actress and director
• Aurora Mardiganian (1901–1994)American actress
• Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662–1728)Swedish noblewoman of Brandenburg extraction
• Aurora Galli (born 1996)Italian footballer
• Aurora Perrineau (born 1994)American actress
• Aurora Miranda (1915–2005)Brazilian entertainer
• Aurora Dan (born 1955)fencer

People named Aurora with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Aurora is most common

• TX14,890
• CA14,208
• FL5,076
• NY5,019
• OH3,313
• PA3,289
• AZ2,949
• MI2,883
• IL2,480
• WA2,435

Relative to how many babies each state records, Aurora is most concentrated in Alaska (5.7×), Nevada (3.3×), Arizona (2.5×), New Mexico (2.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular girls’ names the year Aurora peaked:

• Olivia
• Charlotte
• Emma
• Amelia
• Sophia
• Mia

All the names of 2025

Aurora elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Aurora: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Aurora is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.65% of children were given it – 405 of them.

Aurora: rank by region

In 2025, Aurora was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Aurora was among the 10 most common names in 20 regions of Italy, and first in 3 of them. It has come first somewhere in 11 different years.

In 2025, Aurora was given 2 times or more in 15 regions of Poland.

In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Aurora appears in the lists for Isole (1st), Nord-est (2nd), Sud (2nd), Nord-ovest (3rd) and Centro (4th).

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Aurora appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (66th), Province of Antwerp (89th), Province of Limburg (117th), Province of West Flanders (186th), Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd) and Brussels-Capital Region (244th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Aurora by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Aurora among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 27,040 who carry it, 2,464 go by it.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Aurora lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 42,269 women called Aurora were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Aurelia
• Aurelio
• Aura
• Aurelius
• Auria
• Aurea
• Aurielle
• Auri
• Auriel
• Aurianna
• Auriana
• Aureliano

Aurora against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Aurora vs Aurelia
• Aurora vs Aurelio
• Aurora vs Aura
• Aurora vs Aurelius
• Aurora vs Auria
• Aurora vs Aurea

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