girls:
85k births since 1880
#412 (93rd percentile)
boys:
84 births since 1922
#4502 (2nd percentile)
overall:
85.1k births since 1880
#758 (90th percentile)
The name Aurora is the #758 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85,077 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #412 (92.8% percentile) for all time with 84,993 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,502 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 84 births since 1922.
Aurora has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1922 for boys). Birth data for Aurora is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 14 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aurora has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Aurora reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 97.9% percentile (ranked #21) with 3,461 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3,461 births per million (ranked 97.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1986, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aurora is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #21 (97.9% percentile) with 3,461 births per million.
For boys, Aurora reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #535) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Aurora ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 35.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aurora".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Aurora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.4% confident that Aurora is pronounced as aw-RAW-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is er-AW-ruh, at 28.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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