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Aurelian

#4,148 in 2025Boys' name

Golden

Aurelian has been given to 130 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #4,148 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Aurelian, 2025

1 in 133,000

Aurelian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aurelian: meaning, origin, and history

Golden

Latin

What Aurelian means

Aurelian means “golden”, associated with Aurelius.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Aurelianus, derivative of the gens name Aurelius (“golden”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Aurelian (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aurelian is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Aurelian comes through Latin Aurelianus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 130 boys were recorded with the name Aurelian between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,700 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,561 in 2020 to #4,148 in 2025.

How common is Aurelian?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,148
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aurelian sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aurelian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aurelians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aurelian was born before 2023 — so the typical Aurelian is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
85.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
130
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 85.4% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Aurelian rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−448
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,413
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2024 (30)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,700
2024

Spellings of Aurelian

Aurelian is not the most common spelling — Aurelio is, with 76.9% against Aurelian's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aurelian is used

Across 1910–2025, Aurelian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aurelian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aurelian around the world

Where Aurelian ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2018
    #5,111
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Aurelian by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,148
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,413
Best rank ever
#3,700
2024
Peak year
2024
30 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
130
Count in 2025
25

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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