Aurora is the Latin word for "dawn," and in Roman mythology Aurora was the goddess who opened the gates of heaven every morning for her brother, the sun. The Greek equivalent is Eos. Aurora's tears, in some versions of the myth, are the morning dew.
The astronomical phenomenon of the aurora borealis ("dawn of the north") and aurora australis ("dawn of the south") — the northern and southern lights — borrows her name. So does Sleeping Beauty's name in the Charles Perrault version of the fairy tale, and again in the Disney adaptation that has kept the name in young minds for three generations.
Aurora has the qualities of a name on a long, slow rise: distinguished origins, a beautiful meaning everyone understands, and a sound that flows. It first entered the U.S. top 100 in 2018 and is still climbing.
Aurora reduces to nine in Pythagorean numerology — the number of completion, universality, and compassion. A number for a name that means the beginning of every day.