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Aurelius

#991 in 2025Boys' name

Golden, gilded

Aurelius has been given to 1,764 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #991 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 230 recorded.

Babies named Aurelius, 2025

1 in 14,400

Aurelius 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aurelius: meaning, origin, and history

Golden, gilded

Latin

What Aurelius means

Aurelius means “golden, gilded”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aurelius is used in English and Latin. Its origins include Latin.

Aurelius comes through Latin Aurēlius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Aurelius is pronounced /ɔˈɹiliəs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,764 boys were recorded with the name Aurelius between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 230 in 2025; its best national rank was #991 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,978 in 2020 to #991 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,921 in 2015 to #991 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aurelius?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,400
230 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,430
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#991
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,992 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aurelius 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 9,992 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aurelius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aureliuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aurelius was born before 2019 — so the typical Aurelius is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,627
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (876).

Is Aurelius 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
+131
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+987
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,930
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (230)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#991
2025

Spellings of Aurelius

Aurelius is not the most common spelling — Aurelio is, with 83.0% against Aurelius's 17.0%.

  • Aurelio83.0%8,634
  • Aurelius17.0%1,764

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 Aurelius is used

Across 2016–2025, Aurelius was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 19,322 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 11,111
  2. 2Washington1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 12,500
  5. 5Texas1 in 12,500
  6. 6Arizona1 in 14,286
  7. 7Florida1 in 14,286
  8. 8New York1 in 20,000

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.

Aurelius around the world

Where Aurelius 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
    2009–2025
    #1,466
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #977
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aurelius by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#991
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 987
Best rank ever
#991
2025
Peak year
2025
230 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,764
Count in 2025
230

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Sibling names for Aurelius

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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