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Aurelius vs Aurielle

American parents have registered 1,764 Aureliuses since 1880, against 1,083 Aurielles. Aurelius is still ahead, with 230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aurelius against Aurielle, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aurelius Aurielle

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

Of the 76 years in which either name was published, Aurelius for 51 years and Aurielle for 25 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Aurelius Aurielle
Total US births 1,7641,083
Most in one year 23054
Babies in 2025 23038
Estimated living today 1,6001,100
Median age today 511
Peak year 20252019
Best rank 991st boys3,002nd girls
Rank in 2025 991st3,832nd
First recorded 19131982
Girls / boys 0 / 1,7641,083 / 0

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 Aurielles alive today are over 11; half the Aureliuses are over 5. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Aurelius Aurielle
England and Wales 1133

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: Aurelius and Aurielle.