Aurora (given name)
| Aurora | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin Indian |
| Meaning | Dawn |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Aurore, Rory, Arora |
Aurora is a feminine given name, originating from the name of the ancient Roman goddess of dawn Aurora.[1]
Russian name
The variant used in the Russian language is "Авро́ра" (Avrora).[1] While in use before the 20th century, it became more common after the Russian Revolution of 1917, due to the role cruiser Aurora played in the events.[1] In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,[2] which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia.[3] Diminutives of this name include "Авро́рка" (Avrorka), "А́ва" (Ava), "А́ра" (Ara), and "Ро́ра" (Rora).[1]
Indian name
The Sanksrit name Aarushi (Arushi) meaning first rays of the sun in the dawn, is closely related with this. The name Arushi stems from the word Arusha which appears in the Rig Veda. The Vedic hymns composed in praise of the fire god Agni refer to the red colour of the dawn as Arusha.[4]
The name Aurora or Arora is also used by the Khatri community of West Pakistan as a surname; the name has an Indo-Greek origin of the name Aurora. It can be written the same as Aurora or Arora in family surnames or given female names.
People with this name
- Aurora Aksnes (born 1996), Norwegian singer
- Aurora Bautista (born 1925), a Spanish film actress
- Aurora Browne, Canadian actress and comedian
- Aurora Cáceres (1877–1958), a Peruvian-European writer of the "modernismo" literary movement
- Aurora Carlson (born 1987), a television presenter and China scholar
- Aurora Castillo (1914–1998), a Mexican-American who co-founded the Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA) organization
- Aurora Clavel (born 1936), a Mexican film and television actress
- Aurora Cunha (born 1959), a Portuguese long-distance runner
- Aurora Reyes Flores (1908–1985), a Mexican painter and member of the Mexican muralism movement
- Aurora Karamzina née Stjernvall (1808–1902), a Finnish Swede philanthropist and noblewoman
- Aurora Königsmarck (1662–1728), mistress of Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland
- Aurora Liljenroth (1772–1836), Swedish scholar
- Aurora Ljungstedt (1821–1908), Swedish horror writer
- Aurora Martinez, director of over 70 Spanish-language action movies
- Aurora Mira (1863–1939), Chilean painter
- Aurora Miranda (1915–2005), a Brazilian entertainer
- Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954), a Puerto Rican writer and poet
- Aurora Nilsson (1894–1972), Swedish writer
- Aurora Estrada Orozco (1918–2011), Mexican American community leader
- Aurora Pijuan, the 1970 titleholder of the Miss International beauty pageant
- Aurora Quezon (1888–1949), first spouse of a Philippine president to be called First Lady
- Aurora Robles (born 1980), Mexican supermodel
- Aurora Robson (born 1972), Canadian-American artist
- Aurora Snow (born 1981), American pornographic actress
- Aurore Storckenfeldt (1816–1900), Swedish educator
- Aurora Straus, American racecar driver
- Aurora Venturini (born 1922) an Argentine writer and translator
- Aurora Wilhelmina Koskull (1778–1852), Swedish lady-in-waiting and salonist
- Malaika Arora Khan (born 1976), Indian actress, dancer, model, VJ, and television presenter
- Amrita Arora (born 1981), Bollywood actress
Fictional characters
- Aurora, a character in Marvel Comics' Alpha Flight
- Aurora (Disney), a princess from the Disney film Sleeping Beauty
- Aurora Espinosa, a character from José Zorrilla's play Traidor, inconfeso y mártir
- Aurora Floyd, a character from Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novel of the same name
- Aurora Greenway a character from Terms of Endearment portrayed by Shirley MacLaine
- Aurora Hawthorne, the title character of Aurora the Magnificent, a novel by Gertrude Hall (wife of William Crary Brownell)
- Aurora Lane (1917), a character in The Broken Gate, a novel by Emerson Hough (adapted into films in 1920 and 1927)
- Aurora Lane (2016), a character from the film Passengers
- Aurora Leigh, a character in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem of the same name
- Aurora Sinistra, the astronomy professor in the Harry Potter book series
- Aurora Teagarden, a character created by author Charlaine Harris
- Aurora Thorpe, the title character of Helen Barnes's novel Killing Aurora
References
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 Petrovsky, p. 36
- ↑ Superanskaya, pp. 22 and 278
- ↑ Toronto Slavic Quarterly. Елена Душечкина. "Мессианские тенденции в советской антропонимической практике 1920-х - 1930-х годов" (in Russian)
- ↑ https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=n3mjQktpbDkC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=arushi+agni&source=bl&ots=taqq7SVYhZ&sig=2slw9pJei8cJvofygU2-1EyVZ30&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPp6vw7ffWAhWMpo8KHSGoAbQQ6AEIUTAM#v=onepage&q=arushi%20agni&f=false
Sources
- Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (Dictionary of Russian First Names). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-17-002940-3
- А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-699-14090-5