Aurora's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
Aurora means “dawn” in Latin, says Behind the Name. Aurora was the Roman goddess of the morning, and the name has occasionally been used as a given name since the Renaissance. Wikipedia adds that she was said to travel from east to west announcing the coming of the Sun.
Behind the Name lists Aurore as the French form, Avrora as the Russian and Ukrainian, and Auroora as a Finnish variant. Rory makes a playful pet name.
Norwegian singer Aurora Aksnes, known simply as AURORA, was born in Stavanger on June 15, 1996. Wikipedia says she started writing songs at six and was discovered after a classmate posted her music online. She sang on “Into the Unknown” from Disney’s Frozen 2 and performed it at the 2020 Academy Awards with Idina Menzel. With 10 billion streams, she is the most-streamed female Norwegian artist of all time.
Aurora is rising fast. US Social Security data has it at 93rd in the 2010s, when more than 32,100 American girls were named Aurora. Behind the Name says it ranked 15th in the US in 2025, 2nd in Italy and 1st in Puerto Rico.
Galileo helped name the northern lights. Wikipedia says Galileo Galilei used the term aurora borealis in his writings in 1619, and Pierre Gassendi used it in 1649 to describe a display seen all over France. The lights are called aurora australis in the far south. The name comes from the Roman goddess of the dawn.
Any Aurora, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Aurora can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
How big is Aurora’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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