Aurora

[curiousgeorgie]

Too fairytale?

And are there any nicknames?

It's quite Disney but not overly so as the Roman goddess pre-dates Sleeping Beauty by a year or two.

I think Rory could be a nickname but I hate Rory being nabbed as a girl's name so please don't!

I like it.

Auri as nn.

Way too princessy.

It's lovely. (There's an Aurora in "My Brilliant Career" by Miles Franklin who's known as Rory, but I wouldn't let anyone shorten it if it were my name)

I used to think it was lovely, unusual but useable - then a friend used it on her DD and it just seems totally weird and OTT in real life....

invisiblecrown Gosh, you'd hate my names then. I have 3 and they're all just as princessy as Aurora. I love them all!

I know an Aurora who goes by 'Rory' but she's a bit...fairytale, as you say. A bit odd, and the name really doesn't help. Not sure I'd use it after that, even though it's pretty.

Isadora I have a Mirabel. I'm not against typically 'girly' names, but using the name of an actual Disney princess is a step too far.

It looks nice written down but I find it quite difficult to say.

How about Auriol? I know one, she's nice

I really like it but, like Rory, its completely unusable as I have a slight inability to pronounce my 'R's, not as bad as Wossy but enough to make me shy away from those names.

I think I'm with Sophronia actually, Aurora is quite an awkward name to speak aloud.

I love it. Also love Rory as a nn.

It's my DD's middle name. I love it!
Xx

Love it.

And as a Gilmore Girls obsessive fan I adore Rory for a girl.

it sounds to me like the sound a dog makes whilst chewing a toffee.

roaring laughing at the dog eating toffee! I can hear it exactly. so funny!

:o

Pretty name. Unusual. Don't think I'd be brave enough myself.

I know one, a teenager. Her and her family are a bit hippyish. Other children have unusual names too. The girl herself has tattoos and an unusual style of dress but so do a lot of girls her age I guess. Think she is 17 ish.

I like Aurelia..

It's a range of glasses sponsored my lulu in specsavers

No. Too alternative hippy dippy and I love hippy dippy

I just proper laughed out loud at dog chewing toffee

Not trying to be funny, and I have said this before, but Aurelia always reminds me of nipples....... areola - for that reason it's a definite "No" from me too.

Lovely name

Aurora is not easy to say. It would be hard for others to address her. They'd end up just saying, "Hey, you!" to get her attention. One of my friends named her daughter Elora. It sounds like of like Aurora. I don't like it, though. How bout Dora? How about Arianna?