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.
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 does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aurora reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.