Aurora (first name)
Aurora is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the Latin aurora "dawn".
The first name Aurora is rather rare in Germany, but the frequency is increasing. In Italy, the first name Aurora was given very often in the 2000s. He was always among the top ten first names.
Name days
- Germany : April 1st
- Finland : March 10th (also for Aura and Auri)
- Sweden : March 10th and July 3rd
variants
- Short form: Rory
- French: Aurore
- Norwegian: Ory
- Swedish: Aura, Aurore
- Finnish: Aura, Auri, Auru, Auruura, Ruura, Ruuru
- Icelandic: Áróra
Name bearers
- Aurora von Königsmarck (~ 1663–1728), origin. Marie Aurora Countess von Königsmarck , German provess of the Quedlinburg Abbey, mistress of August the Strong
- George Sand (1804–1876), origin. Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Francueil , French writer
- Aurora Rodríguez (1879–1955), origin. Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira , Spaniard and fictional character with Erich Hackl
- Aurora Reyes Flores (1908–1985), Mexican artist
- Aurora Bautista Zúmel (1925–2012), Spanish actress
- Aurore Clément (* 1945), French actress
- Aurora Lacasa (* 1947), pop singer of Spanish descent
- Aurora "Rory" Block (* 1949), American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- Aurora Cunha (* 1959), Portuguese long-distance runner
- Aura Twarowska (actually Aurora Eleonora Avram; * 1967), Romanian mezzo-soprano and soloist
- Aurora Snow (* 1981), American porn actress
- Aurora Aksnes (* 1996), Norwegian singer
Fictional characters:
- Aurora, the first name of Sleeping Beauty in the film adaptation of Walt Disney (1959)
- Aurora, the first name of the main female character in Babylon AD (2008)
- Aurora, the first name of the protagonist in the movie Passengers
See also
Wiktionary: Aurora - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Aurora (disambiguation)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aurora on behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ 360th place in 2008 , 343th place in 2009 and 153rd place in 2018 for the most common first names for infants, www.likebornamen.de
- ↑ Aurora ranked 8th in 2006 of the most common first names for infants in Italy, www.freeport-forenames.de