Boys' name · since 2017

Aurelien

43 babies named Aurelien in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#23,148 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#8,162 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
43
born since 2017
2020s
peak decade

Aurelien currently ranks #8162 among boys' names in America, with 43 babies recorded since 2017.

Aurelien has 43 recorded births among boys since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8162 as of the latest data, more common than 41% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.

  • #23,148 of 45,481 all-time among boys
  • #8,162 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
  • 43 born since 2017
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aurelien ranks #23,148 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,162 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 43 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.

#23,148 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#8,162 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
43
born since 2017
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%41.4%
Aurelien vs. every other boys name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Aurelien's 43 recorded births place it above 48.79% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Aurelien compares

43 15th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Aurelien's all-time total is 88% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Aurelien Median boys name (Takari) #1 boys name (Liam)
All-time total births 43 369 358,536
Peak-year births 10 34 22,252

Aurelien's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Aurelien's full recorded timeline at 2021, 65% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 35% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Aurelien popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2025)
10
Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
4681012 2017201820192021202320242025 10

Aurelien by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (28 births, 65% of the file).

2020s was Aurelien's strongest decade.

28 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 65% of all-time use.

Aurelien births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 28 births (65% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Aurelien?
Aurelien has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 2017, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #23,148 of 45,481 among boys' names (total births, highest first). Among boys in 2025, it is #8,162 of 13,930. 10 babies were born in 2025, its single highest year.
Where does Aurelien sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aurelien ranks #23,148 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,162 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Aurelien most popular?
Aurelien was most popular in the 2020s decade with 28 total births. The single peak year was 2025.
How long has the name Aurelien been used?
Aurelien has been recorded in Social Security data since 2017, spanning 9 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Aurelien?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Aurelio, Aurelius, Aureliano, Auron, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for boys.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Aurelien: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aurelien draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.