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Aurora - sudden spike in popularity?

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ZoyaTheDestroyer · 29/10/2017 08:25

Idly considering girls' names for DC2 and popped Aurora into the name.darkgreener site. I was surprised to see that it has had an ENORMOUS surge in popularity in the last few years and am trying to work out why. It's almost in the top 100.

Obviously there is the Disney princess connection but that has been around since 1959. Has a celebrity used it for their baby? Are there loads of Auroras in pop culture that have completely passed me by?

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TheEmpressWears · 29/10/2017 10:03

I think it's hard to say. Well, I'm Irish and pronounce Rs, but there are two with no other consonants to 'support' the Rs. If you're in England, do you pronounce your Rs fully, would the name sound like au-wa. Would you end up repeating it endlessly while people tried to make sense of what they'd just heard. I think it's a bad choice, I think you'd spend your life saying 'Aurora' and people wouldn't know what they'd heard.

And that's just the sound. It's also got a bit of cultural appropriation going on (Native American? not sure) and yet it sounds jaded and disney-inspired.

Can I suggest Alba? Even Dawn (!) considered very dated I know is better as it hasn't been used for decades and it's got the snappiness of standing out for that reason.

SuperBeagle · 29/10/2017 09:21

It reminds me of the name Atticus: the sort of name people choose when they think they're being "unique", without realising it's the exact name loads of other people choose when trying to be unique.

Aurora, Aurelia, Arabella, Aria etc. are all having a bit of a moment.

Goshthatwentwell · 29/10/2017 08:51

Just reminds me of the P&O cruise ship TBH.

Notalitigator · 29/10/2017 08:39

I think it's one of those names (also Arlo/River/Fox) that people who perhaps identify as being a bit hippy/alternative/different choose without realising that all the other hippy etc people choose the same names

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