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
Grammatical form

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

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.