Aurora

Where Aurora comes from

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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Aurora
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1901
    Aurora Mardiganian born
    American actress
  3. 1996
    AURORA born
    Icelandic singer ( born June 16 1996)
  4. 2025
    Peak, #15
    7,065 babies named Aurora — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, in regular use since the 19th century.
Namesakes
  • AURORA · Icelandic singer ( born June 16 1996), born 1996
  • Aurora Mardiganian · American actress, 1901–1994
  • Aurora Galli · Italian footballer, born 1996
  • Aurora Perrineau · American actress, born 1994
  • Aurora Bautista · Spanish actress, 1922–2012

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.