Aurora

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aurora: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aurora: Recorded since 1953, with a gap of 14 years, its highest recorded position is #14, reached in 2025.

7registrars recorded it
130times a registrar ranked it
73years from first to last
#14highest recorded position
27groupings it qualifies for
40names it appears alongside

What stands out in Aurora's record

Held a top-100 place for 29 years running. Names by top-100 run
England and Wales registered 1,002 births with the name in 2024, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count
Absent from every published list for 14 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence
Appears alongside 40 other names across 5 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#1176
1998	#1165
1999	#928
2000	#969
2001	#936
2002	#962
2003	#771
2004	#1043
2005	#769
2006	#796
2007	#645
2008	#639
2009	#514
2010	#549
2011	#404
2012	#345
2013	#257
2014	#200
2015	#136
2016	#105
2017	#80
2018	#69
2019	#70
2020	#64
2021	#56
2022	#49
2023	#49
2024	#43

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 46 of the 73 years from 1953 to 2025.

In 2025: #14 among girls in Norway, #42 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #76 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 7 national registrars across 7 regions, 1953–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1953
First recorded at #390 among girls in Norway in 1953 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1953–2025
Highest recorded position: #14 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1953–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #42 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Aurora appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 46 years beginning in 1953, and has registered 6,050 births with the name.

Aurora across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aurora's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#390 (1953)	#14 (2025)	#14 (2025)	46 of 73	6,050 (1953–2025)	270 (2006)
England and Wales · Girls	#1168 (1996)	#43 (2024)	#43 (2024)	29 of 29	9,034 (1996–2024)	1,002 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2008)	#76 (2025)	#76 (2025)	18 of 18	396 (2008–2025)	65 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#383 (2012)	#91 (2023)	#93 (2024)	13 of 13	144 (2012–2024)	23 (2023)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#100 (2014)	#29 (2022)	#42 (2025)	12 of 12	1,585 (2014–2025)	185 (2022)
New Zealand · Girls	#93 (2013)	#42 (2021)	#42 (2023)	11 of 11	711 (2013–2023)	86 (2021)

Aurora by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aurora in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	5	1 of 10	5
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1980s	80	8 of 10	10
1990s	626	10 of 10	63
2000s	1,950	10 of 10	195
2010sbusiest	2,154	10 of 10	215
2020s	1,231	6 of 10	205

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 215 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 62, from 208 to 270.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Aurora appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 7 regions, from 1953 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #14 in Norway in 2025.

Aurora's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#43	1,002	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#49	964	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#49	972	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#56	910	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#64	781	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#70	777	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#69	752	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#80	665	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#105	552	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#136	417	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#200	268	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#257	187	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#345	140	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#404	111	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#549	73	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#514	78	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#639	58	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#645	54	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#796	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#769	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1043	23	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#771	35	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#962	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#936	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#969	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#928	23	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1176	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#42	151	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	female	#37	161	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	133	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	female	#29	185	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	female	#37	182	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	female	#46	139	Insufficient	Not yet available
2019	New South Wales, Australia	female	#52	125	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	female	#45	140	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	female	#47	119	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	New South Wales, Australia	female	#80	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	New South Wales, Australia	female	#80	91	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	New South Wales, Australia	female	#100	67	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	female	#42	76	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#46	80	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#42	86	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	female	#44	77	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	female	#62	67	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	female	#49	74	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	female	#67	58	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	female	#77	55	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	female	#97	47	High	Verified
2014	New Zealand	female	#78	46	High	Verified
2013	New Zealand	female	#93	45	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#93	22	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#91	23	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#147	14	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#152	15	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#178	10	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#167	12	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#195	10	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#150	15	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#251	7	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#312	5	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#14	238	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#21	194	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#15	241	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#20	208	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#25	176	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#29	174	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#21	198	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#21	198	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#17	226	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#15	237	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#17	241	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#26	203	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#26	196	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#22	223	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#27	196	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#21	236	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#24	222	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#22	237	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#27	212	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#17	270	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#26	208	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#34	187	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#29	189	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#41	165	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#48	142	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#58	118	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#64	112	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#67	103	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#100	81	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#106	75	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#112	71	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#144	49	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#160	39	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#185	35	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#174	38	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#240	23	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#233	24	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#348	13	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#346	13	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#497	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#508	7	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#491	7	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#628	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#569	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#538	4	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#390	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#76	65	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#98	48	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#130	36	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#140	38	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#165	29	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#178	26	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#180	28	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#155	34	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#241	20	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#316	14	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#402	11	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	10	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#474	9	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#475	9	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#55	74	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 7 registrars between 1953 and 2025, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #14, first reached in 2025.

It held a top-100 place in 29 years, 29 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,002 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 14 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 71 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Aurelius · #1235, 14y
Aurimas · #208, 20y
Aurora-Rose · #869, 12y
Auryn · #379, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 7 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jasmine · #13, 46y
Elsie · #10, 47y
Levi · #8, 48y
Zara · #23, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Dianne · #14, 48y
Lorraine · #14, 73y
Phillip · #14, 74y
Brett · #15, 68y

Comparisons involving Aurora

Existing comparison pages where Aurora and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Aurora in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Tiril vs Aurora
Tiril and Aurora changed places 17 times in Norway · Girls between 1982 and 2025, ending at #26 and #14.
Tiril · Aurora · 44 shared years, 1982–2025 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Evelyn vs Aurora
Evelyn and Aurora both rose over the same years in 5 registrars — England and Wales · Girls; New South Wales, Australia · Girls; New Zealand · Girls; Northern Ireland · Girls; Republic of Ireland · Girls. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Evelyn · Aurora · 30 shared years, 1996–2025 · Moved together in several countries
Mila vs Aurora
Mila and Aurora both rose over the same years in 5 registrars — England and Wales · Girls; New South Wales, Australia · Girls; Northern Ireland · Girls; Norway · Girls; Republic of Ireland · Girls. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Mila · Aurora · 33 shared years, 1982–2025 · Moved together in several countries

Order changes

Pairs where Aurora and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Emily vs Aurora
In New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Aurora moved into the top 50 at #37 in 2024 as Emily fell out of it to #54, having been #49 the year before.
Emily · Aurora · 12 shared years, 2014–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2024 New South Wales, Australia ranking
Eva vs Aurora
In New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Aurora moved into the top 50 at #37 in 2021 as Eva fell out of it to #51, having been #41 the year before.
Eva · Aurora · 12 shared years, 2014–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2021 New South Wales, Australia ranking
Georgia vs Aurora
In New South Wales, Australia · Girls, Aurora moved into the top 50 at #37 in 2024 as Georgia fell out of it to #52, having been #45 the year before.
Georgia · Aurora · 12 shared years, 2014–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2024 New South Wales, Australia ranking

Aurora was ranked #14 in Norway · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aurora and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aurora without appearing here.

Aurora moved ahead of

Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #769 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #796 and #1585.
Helene Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1168 and #1168 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1176 and #1802.
Belinda Compare
In 2001 they stood at #936 and #898 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #962 and #1530.
Kim Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1043 and #985 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #769 and #1295.

Moved ahead of Aurora

Ivy Compare
In 2003 they stood at #771 and #799 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1043 and #758.
Thea Compare
In 2012 they stood at #383 and #451 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #440 and #178.
Sofie Compare
In 1981 they stood at #390 and #411 in Norway · Girls; by 1982 that had become #569 and #335.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #404 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #345 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Aurora

Åse Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Aurora went from #390 to #14 while Åse went from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Aurora went from #390 to #14 while Aud went from #13 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Aurora went from #390 to #14 while Bjørg went from #11 to #369.
Eileen Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Aurora went from #390 to #14 while Eileen went from #300 to #501.

Moved the same way as Aurora

Alice Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Aurora went from #390 to #14 and Alice from #342 to #182.
Anna Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Aurora went from #390 to #14 and Anna from #73 to #23.
Elise Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Aurora went from #390 to #14 and Elise from #225 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1953 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Aurora went from #390 to #14 and Ella from #182 to #4.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 7 regions, from 1953 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #14 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aurora

Aurora at a glance

What stands out in Aurora's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aurora across 6 official records

Aurora by decade in Norway · Girls

Aurora appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Comparisons involving Aurora

Longest shared records

Order changes

Names published alongside Aurora

Aurora and the names beside it

Aurora moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Aurora

Moved the opposite way to Aurora

Moved the same way as Aurora

Aurora at a glance

What stands out in Aurora's record

Aurora across 6 official records

Aurora by decade in Norway · Girls

Aurora appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Comparisons involving Aurora

Longest shared records

Order changes

Names published alongside Aurora

Aurora and the names beside it

Aurora moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Aurora

Moved the opposite way to Aurora

Moved the same way as Aurora