Sunrise Names, Sunset Names
Names that mean sunrise, sunset, dusk, dawn, twilight.
 
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• UNISEX:

  1. ARRATS: Basque unisex name meaning "early evening; dusk."

  2. SHACHAR (שַׁחַר): Hebrew unisex name meaning "dawn" or "morning."

  3. SHAHAR (שַׁחַר): Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Shachar, meaning "dawn" or "morning."

• MALE:

  1. AGIM: Albanian name meaning "dawn."

  2. AGON: Albanian name meaning "dawn."

  3. AGRON: Albanian name of the second king of Illyria, the husband of Teuta, possibly meaning "dawn." 

  4. ALTAN: Turkish name meaning "dawn."

  5. ANATOLE: French form of Latin Anatolius, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  6. ANATOLII (Анато́лий): Russian form of Latin Anatolius, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  7. ANATOLIJ: Yugoslavian form of Latin Anatolius, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  8. ANATOLIO: Italian form of Latin Anatolius, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  9. ANATOLIOS (Ανατόλιος): Greek name derived from the word anatole, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  10. ANATOLIUS: Latin form of Greek Anatolios, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  11. ANATOLIY (Анато́лий): Variant spelling of Russian Anatolii, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  12. ANATOLY: Variant spelling of Russian Anatolii, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  13. AYK: Armenian name meaning "dawn."

  14. DIMAS: Portuguese and Spanish form of Greek Dismas, meaning "sunset."

  15. DISMAS: Anglicized form of Greek Dysmas, meaning "sunset." This name is not actually found in the bible but was given by Christians to the thief who was crucified beside Jesus.

  16. DYSMAS (Δυσμάς): Greek name not actually found in the bible but given by Christians to the thief who was crucified beside Jesus, meaning "sunset."

  17. EGUNTSENTI: Basque name meaning "dawn."

  18. EOSPHOROS (Εωσφόρος): Greek name meaning "dawn-bringer" or "light-bringer." In mythology, this is another name for Phosphoros (sometimes translated as Lucifer in Latin), a son of Eos. He is one of the gods of the evening star Venus, the other being Hesperos. They were later combined into one god.

  19. EREBOS (Ἔρεβος): Greek name, probably borrowed from Hebrew erebh or Akkadian erebu ("sunset, evening"), hence "darkness." In mythology, this is the name of the offspring of Chaos, brother of Nyx, and father of Æther. He is the personification of primordial darkness. In later legends Erebos became the name of a place in Hades, the underworld. 

  20. IMOO: African Luo name meaning "darkness; dusk."

  21. KOIT: Estonian name meaning "dawn."

  22. NISHANT (िनशा): Hindi name meaning "dawn; end of night."

  23. PRABHAT (प्रभात): Hindi name meaning "dawn."

  24. TLANEXTIC: Nahuatl name meaning "light of dawn."

  25. ZORAN (Зоран): Serbian name meaning "light of dawn."

• FEMALE:

  1. ABEDABUN: Native American Chippewa name meaning "dawn; sight of day."

  2. ADUOR: African Luo name meaning "born at dawn."

  3. AFERDITA: Albanian name meaning "dawn; morning."

  4. ALAULA: Hawaiian name meaning "dawn; light of daybreak."

  5. ALBA: Italian and Spanish name meaning "dawn."

  6. ANATOLA: Feminine form of Latin Anatolius, meaning "east" and "sunrise."

  7. ARSHALOUS: Armenian name meaning "dawn."

  8. AURORA: Latin name meaning "dawn." In Roman mythology, this is the name of a goddess of morning. Equated with Greek Eos. 
  9. AURORE: French form of Roman Latin Aurora, meaning "dawn."
  10. AUSRA: Lithuanian name meaning "dawn."
  11. DAWN: English name derived from the vocabulary word, meaning "dawn."
  12. EOS (Ἠώς): Greek name meaning "dawn." In mythology, this is the name of the goddess of dawn. Equated with Latin Aurora.

  13. FIORALBA: Italian name composed of the elements fiore "flower" and alba "dawn," meaning "flower of dawn."

  14. GRY: Danish and Norwegian name meaning "dawn."

  15. GWAWR: Welsh name meaning "dawn."

  16. HAJNAL: Hungarian name meaning "dawn."
  17. HAJNALKA: Pet form of Hungarian Hajnal, meaning "dawn."

  18. HUA-LING (聂华): Chinese name, possibly meaning "magnificent dawn."

  19. ROKSANA (Russian: Роксана): Polish and Russian form of Latin Roxana, meaning "dawn."

  20. ROSALBA: Italian compound name composed of Latin Rosa "rose" and Alba "dawn," hence "rose of dawn."

  21. ROSALVA: Variant spelling of Italian Rosalba, meaning "rose of dawn."

  22. ROSHANAK (روشنک): Variant spelling of Persian Roušanak, meaning "dawn."

  23. ROUŠANAK (روشنک): Persian name meaning "dawn." Also spelled Roshanak.

  24. ROXANA: Latin form of Persian Roušanak, meaning "dawn." This was the name of a wife of Alexander the Great.
  25. ROXANE: French form of Latin Roxana, meaning "dawn." 
  26. ROXANNA: Variant spelling of Latin Roxana, meaning "dawn."
  27. ROXANNE: Variant spelling of French Roxane, meaning "dawn." This is the preferred spelling used by the English.
  28. ROXIE: English pet form of French Roxanne, meaning "dawn."
  29. ROXY: Variant spelling of English Roxie, meaning "dawn."
  30. RUXANDRA (Руксандра): Romanian form of Latin Roxana, meaning "dawn."

  31. SAHAR (سحر): Arabic name meaning "dawn."

  32. SARANYU: Hindu myth name of the wife of Surya, a goddess of clouds and dawn.

  33. TSURA: Romani form of Slavic Zora, meaning "light of dawn." 
  34. TSURITSA: Pet form of Romani Tsura, meaning "light of dawn."

  35. USHA (उषा): Hindi myth name of a demon princess, daughter of heaven, and sister of night, meaning "dawn."

  36. XIAO-HONG (晓红): Chinese name meaning "red dawn."

  37. ZARIA: Slavic name meaning "morning star" or "sunrise." In mythology, this is the name of a goddess of morning.

  38. ZARYA (Заря): Russian form of Slavic Zaria, meaning "morning star" or "sunrise." 

  39. ZORA (Зора): Feminine form of Serbian Zoran, meaning "light of dawn." Compare with another form of Zora.

  40. ZORIA: Variant spelling of Slavic Zaria, meaning "morning star" or "sunrise."