Avrora
A Slavic form of Latin aurora, the dawn, at home in Russian and Ukrainian. In Poland it stays a rarity: about 150 women and girls carry it, nearly all of them born in the last few years.
Avrora Pronunciation
What Avrora means
Where Avrora comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Avrora comes from the Latin Aurora, the word for dawn and the name of the Roman goddess of morning light. In Russian and Ukrainian the name settled as Аврора, and its close variant Aurora travels beside it. The short meaning stays plain: dawn, in Polish jutrzenka or zorza poranna.
The name holds a famous Russian anchor. The cruiser Aurora, launched in 1900, fired the blank shot in Petrograd in November 1917 that signalled the assault on the Winter Palace. Because of that ship, girls named Avrora across Russia and Ukraine grew up sharing their name with a vessel still moored on the Neva.
Here the dawn meaning is literal. Aurora was morning light long before she was anyone's given name.
Picture a school register with Avrora set between Aneta and Barbara. The variant Aurora keeps the older Latin spelling, and both trace back to the goddess of dawn.
How many people are named Avrora
1 in 144512 women in Poland is named Avrora. 156 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2582 among female names.
Avrora's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1206 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.
Where parents choose Avrora
Avrora is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 888% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+402%).
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
+888%1 in 54,690 babies
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Greater Poland
+402%1 in 107,622 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+888% 2 born1 in 54,690 babies+888%
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Greater Poland+402% 2 born1 in 107,622 babies+402%