Aurelius
Aurelius was given to 230 boys in 2025, #991 among boys’ names; 1,764 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,610 Americans named Aurelius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aurelius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aurelius mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aurelius is “a male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.”
From Latin Aurēlius.
/ɔˈɹiliəs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aurelius?
#991 among boys’ names, 2025
Aurelius rose from #2,921 in 2015 to #991 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.13 per 1,000.
230 babies in 2025, the peak
Aurelius peaked in 2025, when 230 boys were given it, #991 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 190 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 230 | #991 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 190 | #1,122 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 164 | #1,214 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,395 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 87 | #1,801 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 72 | #1,978 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 74 | #1,973 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 52 | #2,476 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,804 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 49 | #2,556 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,921 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,934 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,957 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,171 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 43 | #2,792 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,934 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,913 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,527 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,589 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,811 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,829 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,149 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,903 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,180 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,564 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,306 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,486 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,053 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,540 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,740 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,477 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #3,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,702 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,070 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,598 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,285 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,110 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,309 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,002 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,731 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,805 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,761 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,521 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #2,960 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,233 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,198 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,121 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,945 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aurelius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aurelius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aurelius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aurelius, and how old are they?
1,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,764 Americans ever recorded as Aurelius. The median Aurelius alive today is 6 years old; half are between 2 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 705 people named Aurelius (22 women and girls, 683 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 769 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 47 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 289 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aurelius born?
The states with the most babies named Aurelius are California, Texas and Florida, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 35 | #747 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 35 | #779 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,013 | 0.6× |
| New York | 12 | #997 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 12 | #580 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 7 | #786 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #651 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 6 | #979 | 0.3× |
| New Mexico | 6 | #319 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #934 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aurelius with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aurelius
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aurelius and names like it
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- The most given names of the 2020sAurelius peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aurelius since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Aurelius: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Aurelius.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aurelius alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.