How Many People Are Named Aurora?

90,156

people named Aurora are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 3,791 people in the US has this name

Based on 99,209 babies named Aurora in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#598

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#312

See the top 100

Peak Year

2025

7,070 births

Trend

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Rising (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, German, Romanian, Finnish, Roman Mythology
Pronunciation: ow-RO-ra (Spanish, Classical Latin), ə-RAWR-ə (English), OW-ro-rah (Finnish)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Means "dawn" in Latin. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning. It has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Aurora (99.9%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Aurora alive today is about 13 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 15 in 2025.

Under 30 79,869
88.6%
30 to 59 6,234
6.9%
60 and over 4,053
4.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Aurora first appears in the records in 1880, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 7,070 babies.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Aurora never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #15, in 2025, and it was in the top 100 for 11 years, 2015 to 2025. In 2025 it ranked #15.

Girls
Rank in 2025#15
Best rank#15 (2025)
Years in the top 10011 (2015 to 2025)
Rank in its biggest decade#25 in the 2020s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Aurora alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Aurora were born in California than in any other state: about 12,918 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Aurora was given 5.7 times as often in Alaska, 3 times in New Mexico and 2.4 times in Wyoming.

California 12,918
Texas 10,860
Florida 5,020
New York 4,598
Ohio 3,286
Pennsylvania 3,191
Michigan 2,841
Arizona 2,570
Washington 2,417
Illinois 2,360
North Carolina 2,083
Indiana 2,001
Virginia 1,867
Georgia 1,751
Minnesota 1,732
Missouri 1,722
New Jersey 1,605
Tennessee 1,587
Oregon 1,502
Massachusetts 1,449
Wisconsin 1,372
Oklahoma 1,216
Utah 1,142
Maryland 1,087
Colorado 1,060
Nevada 1,051
Kentucky 1,003
Iowa 992
Kansas 937
New Mexico 822
South Carolina 799
Louisiana 779
Alaska 745
Alabama 723
Idaho 689
Arkansas 689
Connecticut 658
Nebraska 583
West Virginia 533
Montana 435
Maine 387
New Hampshire 386
North Dakota 344
Mississippi 328
South Dakota 320
Hawaii 277
Rhode Island 237
Wyoming 189
Delaware 175
Vermont 165
District of Columbia 133

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