Auriel
Auriel is given to both girls and boys: 14 girls and 13 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,528 among girls’ names and #6,482 among boys’, #8,470 among all names counting both); 981 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Auriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Auriel?
#7,528 among girls’ names, 2025
Auriel fell from #5,306 in 2015 to #7,528 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 8.7 per million.
57 babies in 1991, the peak
Auriel peaked in 1991, when 57 girls were given it, #2,267 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 47% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,528 | 13 | #6,482 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,666 | 7 | #10,007 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,416 | 8 | #8,994 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,132 | 10 | #7,810 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,297 | 12 | #6,738 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,349 | 6 | #10,729 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,448 | 6 | #10,925 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,838 | 7 | #9,768 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,378 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,873 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,306 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,235 | 7 | #9,735 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,428 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,574 | 5 | #12,448 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,842 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,650 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,791 | 8 | #9,060 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,166 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,423 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,565 | 5 | #12,207 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,291 | 6 | #10,236 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,226 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,052 | 5 | #11,035 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,475 | 6 | #9,490 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,994 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,511 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,217 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,810 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,651 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,065 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,463 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,382 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,267 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,773 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,267 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,959 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,102 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,864 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,870 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,200 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,003 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,983 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,859 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,179 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,334 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Auriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 981 Americans recorded as Auriel, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Auriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Auriel, and how old are they?
An estimated 966 Americans named Auriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 11 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 802 people named Auriel (657 women and girls, 145 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 836 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 107,568 babies since 1880, Auriel is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 1,445 babies (1.9%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Auriel
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 Auriel and names like it
- Compare Auriel and ArielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAuriel peaked in 1991.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Auriel since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Auriel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Auriel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.