Entry № 1080 · Latvian origin

Austra Austra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OW-strah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latvian
Meaning
"Dawn (Baltic goddess + folk heritage)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Baltic)

A name that means "dawn (baltic goddess + folk heritage)".

Austra is from the Latvian austra (dawn) — cognate with Lithuanian aušra. Austra Veismane — Latvian historical figure. Princess Austra — Baltic heritage naming.

Dawn (Baltic goddess + folk heritage) — a Latvian name.

The name in its native script.

Austra
Transliteration
Austra
Pronunciation
/ ˈaʊ.strə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Austra stands.

Austra 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.

Austras before her.

Real people
Katie Stelmanis (Austra band)
Iconic Latvian-Canadian indie act.
born 1985
In fiction
Austra
Latvian dawn-goddess.

Names connected to Austra.

The number behind Austra.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Austra reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.