Entry № 1076 · Lithuanian origin

Aušra Aušra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AUSH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Lithuanian
Meaning
"Dawn"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Baltic)

A name that means "dawn".

Aušra is the Lithuanian word for "dawn" — also the name of the goddess of the morning star in Baltic mythology, related to the Greek Eos.

Aušra was the name of the first Lithuanian-language newspaper (1883), a symbol of the Lithuanian national revival.

Dawn. The Baltic morning star.

The name in its native script.

Aušra
Transliteration
Aušra
Pronunciation
/ ˈaʊʃ.rə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Aušra stands.

Aušra does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aušras before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Aušra
Lithuanian dawn goddess.
Baltic mythology

Names connected to Aušra.

The number behind Aušra.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aušra reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.