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Aurora

Pronounced /əˈɹɔɹ.ə/

Rank in 2024
#16
Born in 2024
6,917
Peak year
2024 · #16
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 6,917 girls were named Aurora, about 1 in every 233.
  • 2024 is its biggest year on record.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 91,980 girls have been named Aurora since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Aurora per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.6
    Gen Z
  7. 2.8
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 4,330 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Silent: 4,096 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,429 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,766 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,265 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Z: 16,072 babies, 0.55 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 56,755 babies, 2.79 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

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.

  • A female given name from Latin, in regular use since the 19th century.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/əˈɹɔɹ.ə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Aurora, CC BY-SA 4.0.