Girl · Latvian
Austra
Say it: OWS-trah
Meaning
From Latvian austra 'dawn' and the dawn figure of Latvian folk songs.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A national-revival name drawn from folk-song imagery.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
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