Aurelius

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ɔˈɹiliəs/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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Aurelius is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 705 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • FIFinland1 in 61K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 76K
  • SESweden1 in 89K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

705 people, 2020

Record sources
123 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

How to pronounce Aurelius

  • English:/ɔˈɹiliəs/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
  • Indonesian:/a͡ʊrəlius/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Spanish:/aurɛlius/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aurelius, 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)

Aurelius 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.

Where Aurelius is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7051 in 472K683Aurelius123
NL Netherlands2281 in 76K228Aurelius9
IN India≈140 est.≈1 in 11M—Aurelius7
SE Sweden1141 in 89K114—5
FI Finland911 in 61K125——
AT Austria≈27 est.≈1 in 345K71——
EE Estonia≈5 est.≈1 in 253K6—1

705 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Aurelius is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Switzerland

    Also written Aurélius

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aurélius

  • Danish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Aurélius

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Aurélius

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Aurelius is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, Name of a plebeian Roman gens.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ⇒ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

    as a word국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

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)
1860188019001920Charles Aurelius Smith, b. 1861Aurelius Arkenau, b. 1900Aurelius Battaglia, b. 1910

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aurelius mean, and where does it come from?
A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Aurelius?
It depends on the language: in English /ɔˈɹiliəs/ (Wiktionary); in Indonesian /a͡ʊrəlius/; in Spanish /aurɛlius/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Is Aurelius a male or female name?
Aurelius is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Finland (DVV).
What are other forms of the name Aurelius?
In the etymology graph, Aurelio, Aurelie and Aurel are forms of the same name in other languages.
Which countries have the most people named Aurelius?
In the United States, the national register counted about 705 people named Aurelius, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aurelius. After it come Netherlands, India, Sweden and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Aurelius most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aurelius is densest in Finland — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Aurelius?
In the United States, the national register counted 705 people named Aurelius in 2020, about 1 in 472 thousand residents.

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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, “Aurelius” — ranked 16110th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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