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Aurelio vs Auriel

American parents have registered 8,640 Aurelios since 1880, against 981 Auriels. Aurelio is still ahead, with 399 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aurelio against Auriel, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aurelio Auriel

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

Aurelio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1904 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Aurelio had 114 and Auriel had 57.

Side by side

  Aurelio Auriel
Total US births 8,640981
Most in one year 39957
Babies in 2025 39927
Estimated living today 6,600970
Median age today 2522
Peak year 20251991
Best rank 681st boys2,270th girls
Rank in 2025 681st7,491st
First recorded 19041979
Girls / boys 6 / 8,634870 / 111

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 Aurelios alive today are over 25; half the Auriels are over 22. 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 Aurelio Auriel
France 73045
England and Wales 1356

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: Aurelio and Auriel.