Aurélien
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Aurelianus, from Aurelius/Aureus ‘golden’; borne by several saints, name-day 16 June
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
/ɔ.ʁe.ljɛ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Aurélien is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 3.2Kfew records
- BEBelgium≈1 in 7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 363 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aurelien in FR France, US United States, CM Cameroon and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Latin Aurelianus, from Aurelius/Aureus ‘golden’; borne by several saints, name-day 16 June.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aurélien counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #180 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 80K | Aurelien | 363 |
| CM Cameroon | #229 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Aurelien | 29 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Aurelien | 9 |
| BE Belgium | #613 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Aurélien | 83 |
| CH Switzerland | #760 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3 | Aurélien | 59 |
| US United States | — | 268 | 1 in 1.2M | 461 | Aurelien | 150 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Aurélien is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Latin Aurelianus/Aurelius, related to aurum 'gold'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, du nom latin Aurēliānus, dérivé de aureus « d’or, doré »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Origine latine, dérivé d’Aurèle/Aurelius, « en or ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du latin Aurelianus, dérivé d'Aurelius, « doré ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lugné-Poeb. 1869FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor and director (1869–1940)
- Aurlus Mabéléb. 1953CGnot in their usual nameCongolese singer and composer
- Aurélien Recoingb. 1958FRFrench actor
- Aurélien Wiikb. 1980FRFrench actor
- Orelsanb. 1982FRnot in their usual nameFrench rapper
- Aurélien Chedjoub. 1985CMCameroonian and French footballer
- Aurélien Joachimb. 1986LULuxembourgish association football player
- Ponceb. 1991FRnot in their usual nameFrench streamer
- Aurélien Giraudb. 1998FRFrench professional skateboarder (1998-)
- Aurélien Tchouaménib. 2000FRFrench footballer (born 2000)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 80K | #447 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #464 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aurélien mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Aurelianus, from Aurelius/Aureus ‘golden’; borne by several saints, name-day 16 June. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Aurélien?
- In French /ɔ.ʁe.ljɛ̃/ (Wiktionary).
- What are other forms of the name Aurélien?
- In the etymology graph, Aurélie, Aureliano and Aurelianus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Aurélien a male or female name?
- Aurélien is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024).
- In which country does Aurélien have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Aurélien in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aurelien.
- How common is the name Aurélien?
- In the United States, the national register counted 268 people named Aurélien in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Aurélien compared with other names?
- In France, Aurélien is the 180th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aur%C3%A9lienThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aurélien” — the 180th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.