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Aurelia vs Aurion

American parents have registered 18,435 Aurelias since 1880, against 72 Aurions. Aurelia is still ahead, with 1,056 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aurelia against Aurion, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aurelia Aurion

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Aurelia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Aurelia had 60 and Aurion had 20.

Side by side

  Aurelia Aurion
Total US births 18,43572
Most in one year 1,05620
Babies in 2025 1,056under 5
Estimated living today 13,00070
Median age today 1013
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 290th girls7,257th boys
Rank in 2025 290thunranked
First recorded 18801998
Girls / boys 18,435 / 030 / 42

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Aurions alive today are over 13; half the Aurelias are over 10. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aurelia Aurion
England and Wales 3,9123

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aurelia and Aurion.