Aurel
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Romanian: golden
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aurel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aurel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 847(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 1.2K
- ALAlbania1 in 1.3K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 847 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
golden
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aurel is read(measured from records)
Aurel is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Romanian25%
golden
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
AURÉL, -ÍCĂ, aurei, -ele, adj. (Rar) Auriu. [Pr.: a-u-].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
- French22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aurel in French.
- English18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aurel in English.
- Spanish6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aurel in Spanish.
- German5.8%
) Aurelius: in Deutschland seit dem 16. Jh. belegter männl. Vom. lateini schen Ursprungs, der auf einen altrömischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aurel, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aurel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #763 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 847 | — | Aurel | 25 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Aurel | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 3 | Aurel | 7 |
| MD Moldova | — | 2,864 | 1 in 1.2K | 2.9K | — | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | #775 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Aurel | 12 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,339 | 1 in 1.3K | 2.3K | — | — |
| BJ Benin | #183 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Aurel | 18 |
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: e-services.md — living population register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aurel Stodolab. 1859HUSlovak scientist (1859–1942)
- Aurel Steinb. 1862HUHungarian-British archaeologist (1862-1943)
- Aurel Popovicib. 1863RORomanian politician (1863-1917)
- Aurel Vlaicub. 1882RORomanian aviation pioneer (1882–1913)
- Aurel Babeșb. 1886RORomanian scientist
- Jean Aurelb. 1925FRFrench screenwriter and film director (1925–1996)
- Aurel Vernescub. 1939ROCanoe racer
- Aurel Țicleanub. 1959RORomanian footballer
- Yann Aurel Bisseckb. 2000DEGerman footballer (born 2000)
- Chrislain Matsimab. 2002FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 2002)
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)
Attested in 61 sources across 37 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Aurel mean, and where does it come from?
- golden Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Aurel a male or female name?
- Aurel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Aurel?
- In the etymology graph, Aurelio, Aurélio and Aurelius are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Aurel?
- A machine transcription gives /aurel/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Aurel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Aurel in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aurel.
- How common is the name Aurel?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 2,864 people named Aurel, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Aurel compared with other names?
- In Romania, Aurel is the 763rd most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aurel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aurelThe 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, “Aurel” — the 763rd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.