What do we think...

[leoteddy]

Of Aurora for a girl? With Rory for short?

Princess Aurora aka sleeping beauty! I always loved the name though, was more after the northern lights I guess than Disney...

Oh! Wow I never knew she was an Aurora.

As a huge Gilmore girls fan I love Rory for a girl x

BreeVDKamp, glad to see I am not the only one who only found out later in life!

I love it

Surely people's first thought would be Aurora Borealis, rather than some Disney thing?!

Aurora always makes me think of the sound of a dog chewing a toffee - sorry :(

And there are far fewer boys names than girls for a start, so please leave some for the parents of boys to use as it's not like they can do the same and get into a boy named Sue scenario

Terrible sorry

oh no!

I like rory for a boy but it's horrible for a girl. I don't like Aurora either. That's hard to say. my lips stick out like marge simpsons when I say "aurora"

For me, Aurora is the independent , dungaree wearing Danish little girl heroine of Hallo Aurora and Aurora and The Little Blue Car, so I really like it. (Her brother was called Socrates, can you imagine the Baby Names thread there?).

And I can't see the problem with Rory - Jacky, Harry, Charlie etc are all boys names that are short for longer girl's names.

I met a little girl called Rory recently. I have a DS called Rory and couldn't work out what her name was short for (if anything). Pretty name if not slightly confusing.

I loved the Aurora books, too, LauraChant. And The Changeover which got Sorensen on the boys' names long list.

Wow, Molly, double yay! I have never met anyone else who has read the Aurora books and I am on a ceaseless mission to get someone to name a child Sorensen.

Lovely - hate the Disney link though. It was on our list!

I think it's very pretty and I love Rory for a girl.

Although, I love boys names on girls, which is why I struggle to like boys names, as I always think they would be better on a girl (examples: Elijah, Elliott, Ryan... Are they not just adorable girls' names!)

Big thumbs up from me.

Before Disney and ballet, Aurora was originally the Roman goddess of dawn. Roman poets called her 'rosy-fingered', after the rays of the rising sun.

Aurora is lovely!

I love it! Think I'd go for shortening it to Rora rather than Rory but I do like it either way

Aurora is pretty (could be unfortunate if she can't pronounce her 'r's, though). But Rory is a boy's name.

Lovely name.

Never understand why people 'choose' a nickname though.

Very nice name

Lovely name

I quite like it. And I'd think of the goddess, or Aurora Borealis, not a Disney princess!

Don't like Rory for a nickname, though.

I didn't realise Disney princesses were such a big thing outside the US, but then again I don't have any little girls...

No&No